{"id":69779,"date":"2025-08-15T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/69779\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:32:07","slug":"cursed-card-ufc-319-loses-its-second-fight-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/69779\/","title":{"rendered":"Cursed card? UFC 319 loses its second fight in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Not long after King Green was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-events-ppv\/382579\/last-minute-injury-shakes-up-ufc-319-fight-card-no-replacement-sought-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">withdraw from his \u201cPrelims\u201d headliner<\/a> versus fellow Lightweight veteran Carlos Diego Ferreira, the fight card has taken another hit. A new Ultimate Fighter (TUF) Welterweight champion was supposed to be crowned when Rodrigo Sezinando squared off with Daniil Donchenko, but the bout has been canceled due to injury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/news\/updates-ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per a UFC announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s unclear at the moment which athlete is injured, but the promotion intends to rebook the finale match at a later date. Thankfully, the Flyweight finale between Joseph Morales vs. Alibi Idiris will still move forward as planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rodrigo Sezinando advanced to the TUF 33 welterweight final by winning a split decision over Jeff\u202fCreighton in the semis. Daniil Donchenko, meanwhile, earned his spot by delivering a first\u2011round TKO over Matt\u202fDixon in the semifinals. Both were hoping to earn the famed TUF \u201csix-figure contract\u201d and start their official UFC careers off with a victory, but the Team Cormier athletes will have to wait for a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the current UFC 319 fight card and PPV lineup click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/17\/24450993\/ufc-319-fight-card-ppv-start-time-date-location-dricus-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-chimaev-chicago-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not long after King Green was forced to withdraw from his \u201cPrelims\u201d headliner versus fellow Lightweight veteran Carlos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,51993,40762,785,85,51992,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-69779","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-full-results","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time","16":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69779","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=69779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}