{"id":646936,"date":"2026-05-03T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646936\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:56:08","slug":"tai-tuivasa-reacts-to-seventh-straight-loss-at-ufc-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646936\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Tuivasa reacts to seventh straight loss at UFC Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBam Bam\u201d is hurting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fan-favorite Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight veteran Tai Tuivasa suffered another setback at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/439537\/ufc-perth-live-results-highlights-play-by-play-jack-della-vs-prates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Perth<\/a> yesterday (Sat., May 2, 2026), dropping a unanimous decision to short-notice opponent Louie Sutherland inside RAC Arena in Perth, Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After the fight, Tuivasa took to Instagram with a raw, emotional message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSORRY. I tried I felt good I put in the work didn\u2019t get result. I feel like a shit cunt let my fans down again. Back to the drawing board for me. Cunt of a sport.<br \/>BUT I WILL NEVER GIVE UP IM FROM WESTERNSYDNEY YOU GOTTA PUT ME OUT FOR ME TO GIVE UP.<br \/>Sorry all my loyal fans I really am and to my team love yahs\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For Tuivasa, though, the message is clear: he\u2019s not done yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC Perth results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/e\/439537\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBam Bam\u201d is hurting. Fan-favorite Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight veteran Tai Tuivasa suffered another setback at UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,6656],"class_list":{"0":"post-646936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-ufc-on-paramount","16":"tag-ufc-results"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}