{"id":657732,"date":"2026-05-08T12:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657732\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:49:13","slug":"mixed-martial-arts-coming-to-watertown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657732\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Martial Arts coming to Watertown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Mixed martial arts is coming back to the Watertown Municipal Arena next weekend with Victory 39: Raging Cage, set for Saturday night, May 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Event promoter John Gibbons says Watertown and especially the Municipal Arena continues to be an ideal venue for hosting MMA, offering the space and setup needed for a live fight card and a strong local atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tickets for the event are available through multiple options, and Gibbons says fans will have several ways to purchase in advance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As with past events, a portion of the proceeds will benefit a charitable cause. This time, Gibbons is partnering with a national organization, Victory 39.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Victory 39: Raging Cage takes place Saturday, May 16, at the Watertown Municipal Arena. Doors open at 5 p.m., and the fights begin at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Mixed martial arts is coming back to the Watertown Municipal Arena next weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,103019],"class_list":["post-657732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-wwny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657732","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=657732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}