{"id":655190,"date":"2026-05-07T09:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655190\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:12:24","slug":"apfc-champ-jon-kunneman-faces-lfa-champ-joseph-kropschot-at-aug-11-dwcs-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655190\/","title":{"rendered":"APFC champ Jon Kunneman faces LFA champ Joseph Kropschot at Aug. 11 DWCS card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jon Kunneman is booked for Dana White\u2019s Contender Series for the second year in a row, but after an injury scratched him from his first opportunity, the undefeated prospect is ready to cash in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kunneman faces Joseph Kropschot at the DWCS event on Aug. 11. The card takes place at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas and streams exclusively on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 10-0 Kunneman returns after a lengthy layoff in the middleweight bout. The current Anthony Pettis Fighting Championship middleweight titleholder was set to face Cam Rowston this past August on DWCS before he was forced to withdraw from the matchup. The longtime training partner of UFC interim lightweight champ Justin Gaethje has finished all 10 of his opponents inside of two rounds, and his past nine in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kropschot, the LFA middleweight champion, enters the biggest opportunity of his career on a four-fight win streak \u2014 finishing all opponents during the run. In February, Kropschot captured the LFA 185-pound title with a second-round submission of David Allakhverdiev at LFA 226.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Kunneman is booked for Dana White\u2019s Contender Series for the second year in a row, but after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-655190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655190","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=655190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}