{"id":757575,"date":"2026-06-24T17:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757575\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:18:09","slug":"opening-fight-canceled-gable-steveson-dumped-on-prelims-in-latest-ufc-329-fight-card-update-breaks-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757575\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening fight canceled, Gable Steveson dumped on Prelims in latest UFC 329 fight card update &#8212; \u2018Breaks my heart\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UFC 329\u2019s opening fight between flyweights Ode Osbourne and Cody Durden is no longer happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cUnfortunately, I won\u2019t be able to complete on July 11th,\u201d Osbourne wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZ8BYQmSZp6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cThis breaks my heart because it\u2019s such a big stage, and my team and I have put in a lot of hard work over the past eight weeks. I\u2019m going to rest and be back for the next one. Thanks, everyone, for rockin\u2019 with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Osbourne did not disclose a reason for his withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cMy opponent Ode Osbourne has officially went running and pulled out of our fight for July 11th at UFC 329,\u201d Durden wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Cody_Durden\/status\/2069411339244560868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2069411339244560868%7Ctwgr%5Ef5364fdcd0c5e398e7da873d2f07983c523ec0f0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mmamania.com%2Fboxing%2F452785%2Fbye-bye-boxing-jake-paul-wants-to-play-college-football-and-join-the-nfl-im-being-serious\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>. \u201cWho wants to fight me in 19 days?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 329\u2019s opening fight between flyweights Ode Osbourne and Cody Durden is no longer happening. \u201cUnfortunately, I won\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,1647],"class_list":["post-757575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757575","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=757575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}