{"id":754514,"date":"2026-06-23T06:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754514\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:52:22","slug":"chris-fowler-breaks-down-what-sets-mma-apart-from-other-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754514\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Fowler breaks down what sets MMA apart from other sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Machado Garry, Diego Lopes, Xander Zayas in studio, Chris Fowler in studio, weekend recap, more | The Ariel Helwani Show | June 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Ariel Helwani Show is BACK &#8230; IN &#8230; YOUR &#8230; LIFE!<\/p>\n<p>Join Ariel and the Boys in the Back as they react to every angle from the combat sports weekend and more. Monday&#8217;s rundown can be seen below:<\/p>\n<p>1 p.m. ET: Ariel and the gang kick off the week by reacting to UFC Vegas 119.<\/p>\n<p>1:30 p.m. ET: Ian Machado Garry previews his UFC 330 title fight against Islam Makhachev.<\/p>\n<p>2 p.m. ET: Diego Lopes reflects on his UFC Freedom 250 win over Steve Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>2:25 p.m. ET: Xander Zayas joins us in-studio ahead of Saturday&#8217;s big showdown against Jaron &#8220;Boots&#8221; Ennis.<\/p>\n<p>3 p.m. ET: Veteran sports broadcaster Chris Fowler is next up in-studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Machado Garry, Diego Lopes, Xander Zayas in studio, Chris Fowler in studio, weekend recap, more | The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,361463,794,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-754514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chris-fowler","tag-espn","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754514","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=754514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}