{"id":748066,"date":"2026-06-20T03:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748066\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:46:10","slug":"zabit-magomedsharipov-books-grappling-match-with-top-15-ufc-bantamweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748066\/","title":{"rendered":"Zabit Magomedsharipov books grappling match with top 15 UFC bantamweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Zabit Magomedsharipov will finally return to competition on July 5, but it will be under grappling rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The retired MMA prospect has booked a 155-pound no-gi match with Raul Rosas Jr. as the main event of the upcoming ACBJJ event in Moscow, Russia. The co-headliner features UFC welterweight Rinat Fakhretdinov versus Armen Petrosyan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Magomedsharipov was originally rumored to be facing Dan Hooker at the event, but instead, it\u2019s Rosas who faces the former featherweight contender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Magomedsharipov walked away from MMA in 2020 after another cancelled bout with Yair Rodriguez, ending his career with a pro record of 18-1 with six straight wins under the UFC banner. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/487866\/zabit-magomedsharipov-fight-cancellations-led-to-retirement-ufc-didnt-want-to-make-me-a-champion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently revealed<\/a> his decision to leave the sport was due to multiple fight cancellations and the impression that the UFC \u201cdidn\u2019t want to make me a champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Russian talent, now 35, beat Jeremy Stephens and Calvin Kattar in his final UFC bouts in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Rosas Jr., ranked No. 13 in the official UFC bantamweight list, improved to 6-1 in the company after a decision victory over Rob Font this past March, his fifth in a row since 2023. He competed in a grappling match with Deiveson Figueiredo in Brazil, but that ended in a draw since neither could secure a submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zabit Magomedsharipov will finally return to competition on July 5, but it will be under grappling rules. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748067,"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-748066","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\/748066","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=748066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}