Rafael Fiziev sent a reminder to UFC fans\u2014and the rest of the lightweight division\u2014with a sensational knockout victory over surging contender Manuel Torres in the main event of Saturday\u2019s UFC Baku card. Now that Fiziev is back on track, what makes sense for him, and how do you think the new UFC Meta Ranking structure will reward him?<\/p>\n
Following the UFC Fight Night card, MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck, along with a guest appearance from Alexander K. Lee, reacts to the event as a whole, Fiziev\u2019s spectacular performance, his callout for the \u201cBMF\u201d title, and what fights make sense. Additionally, they discuss some of the weirder moments on the card, another rough day for Herb Dean, Shara Bullet\u2019s win over Michel Pereira in the co-main event, and much more.<\/p>\n
Watch the UFC Baku post-fight show above, or an audio-only version of the show can also be streamed below and on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, or wherever else you get your pods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Fiziev sent a reminder to UFC fans\u2014and the rest of the lightweight division\u2014with a sensational knockout victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,45518,1591,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-764828","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","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764828","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=764828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}