{"id":685202,"date":"2026-05-21T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/685202\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:13:09","slug":"marvin-vettori-pulls-out-of-ufc-baku-on-june-27th-with-broken-rib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/685202\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Vettori pulls out of UFC Baku on June 27th with broken rib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Marvin Vettori won\u2019t be making the trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/441456\/latest-ufc-baku-fight-card-paramount-start-time-date-and-location-fiziev-vs-torres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Baku<\/a> after an injury in training has left him unable to compete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe Italian Dream\u201d was set to face \u201cAustrian Wonderboy\u201d Ismail Naurdiev on the second UFC card to be held in Azerbaijan, but a broken rib has forced him to withdraw from the fight. Vettori made a statement via his social media accounts announcing the bad news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cUnfortunately, I\u2019m here to tell you that a few days ago, I got hurt on my rib,\u201d Vettori said. \u201cI did an MRI, and it came back today showing that the rib is broken. So I won\u2019t be fighting June 27.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI was really looking forward to this fight,\u201d he continued. \u201cMoved from Florida to California for this camp, wanted to get back to my roots \u2026 I was feeling good. Sometimes s&#8211;t happens and you can\u2019t do nothing about it. So, yeah, now I\u2019m just gonna focus on my recovery. Hopefully, it doesn\u2019t take too long. Four to six weeks, I\u2019m good to train again and then, they reschedule me with the same guy? Great. If not, doesn\u2019t matter. Anybody is good to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Vettori has been going through an extended slump that\u2019s lasted four years. He\u2019s 1-5 in that time with his last win coming against Roman Dolidze back in March 2023. While wins have been eluding him, he\u2019s still proven worthy of watching with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/20\/24470954\/max-holloway-and-dustin-poirier-discuss-fight-of-the-night-robbery-what-the-hell-bro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two Fight of the Night bonuses<\/a> coming his way over that period. But a fifth loss in a row would not have been good for the Italian fighter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-announcements\/441419\/rafael-fiziev-vs-manuel-torres-announced-as-main-event-for-ufc-baku-on-june-27th\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Baku is headlined<\/a> by a lightweight bout between Rafael Fiziev and Manuel Torres, while Shara \u201cBullet\u201d Magomedov faces Michel Pereira in the co-main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As of this moment, the UFC hasn\u2019t made any announcement regarding Ismail Naurdiev staying on the UFC Baku card in just over a month or if they\u2019ll re-book him against Vettori at a later date. Naurdiev is 2-1 in his UFC career and has thus far fought exclusively in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvin Vettori won\u2019t be making the trip to UFC Baku after an injury in training has left him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-685202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685202","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=685202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}