{"id":758313,"date":"2026-06-25T01:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758313\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T01:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:26:22","slug":"no-bets-barred-can-rafael-fiziev-give-azerbaijan-reason-to-celebrate-at-ufc-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758313\/","title":{"rendered":"No Bets Barred: Can Rafael Fiziev give Azerbaijan reason to celebrate at UFC Baku?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The UFC is heading back to Baku.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This Saturday, the UFC has its final show before a weeklong break, returning to the National Gymnastics Arena in Baku, Azerbaijan. In the main event, the UFC\u2019s biggest Azerbaijani star, Rafael Fiziev, looks to rebound from a difficult loss to Mauricio Ruffy when he takes on surging lightweight Manuel Torres, and No Bets Barred is here to break it all down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This week, host Jed Meshew flies solo to discuss all things UFC Baku, including whether Fiziev can find his form again, if Torres is a legitimate contender at 155 pounds, if this is the end for Michel Pereira, a few hidden gym fights on the card, the restart of The Climb, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tune in for episode 158 of No Bets Barred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">New episodes of the No Bets Barred podcast drop every Wednesday and are available on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?xcust=__sb0624awD__493460____r______________google.com&amp;id=66960X1516590&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/id320642139&amp;referrer=sbnation.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/27Z2RR39rjGrRcV1DiQ40J?si=5ZS0Lje7QbWITUd60cOb8g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, or wherever else you find your favorite podcasts. The latest episode can be heard below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC is heading back to Baku. This Saturday, the UFC has its final show before a weeklong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,45518,1591,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-758313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mmaf-podcast-network","tag-podcasts","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758313","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=758313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}