{"id":730723,"date":"2026-06-12T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730723\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:31:09","slug":"anything-but-fighting-mauricio-ruffy-loves-one-piece-monkey-d-luffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730723\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything but Fighting: Mauricio Ruffy loves One Piece, Monkey D. Luffy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 UFC lightweight contender Mauricio Ruffy joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to discuss everything from his favorite anime\u2014including his deep love for One Piece and its wildly popular main character Monkey D. Luffy\u2014and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ruffy (13-2) competes Sunday at UFC White House against former Bellator star and one-time UFC title challenger Michael Chandler. The Brazilian knockout artist won his first three fights after being signed off of Dana White\u2019s Contender Series in 2023, including a Knockout of the Year candidate against King Green when he flattened the longtime veteran with a spinning wheel kick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After suffering his first loss at the hands of Benoit Saint Denis at UFC Paris this past September, Ruffy rebounded with a knockout of Rafael Fiziev at UFC 325. Ruffy currently trains alongside UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and his team in Australia, and aims to enter the thick of the lightweight title conversation with a star showing at UFC White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 UFC lightweight contender Mauricio Ruffy joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to discuss everything from his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-730723","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","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730723","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=730723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}