{"id":805836,"date":"2026-07-17T09:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805836\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:48:13","slug":"wwe-news-aew-news-pro-wrestling-backstage-news-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805836\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"1620\" height=\"913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Shinya-Aoki-DC-4860-e1784265639187.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image lazy\" alt=\"Shinya Aoki\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-\/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Shinya Aoki is looking to continue competing in MMA.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran wrestler and MMA fighter Shinya Aoki spoke to reporters (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tokyo-sports.co.jp\/articles\/-\/395977\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo Sports<\/a>) and revealed that his contract with ONE Championship MMA has expired. He said he officially became a free agent in May.<\/p>\n<p>Aoki shared that he has not heard from anyone at ONE and added that he has not received any other offers for MMA bouts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cLooking back, we\u2019ve walked together for 13 years. Not a single thank you came from ONE. Why?\u201d Aoki added, \u201cWhat\u2019s saddest of all is that, despite this situation, I haven\u2019t received any offers (for MMA fights) from anywhere. Free agent might sound good, but basically, I\u2019m unemployed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aoki has been fighting professionally since 2003. He has an MMA record of 49-12. His last fight was for ONE in November 2025, where he lost to Hiroyuki Tetsuka via TKO in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Aoki has been in pro wrestling since 2013. He\u2019s been with DDT since 2018. He\u2019s also wrestled for GLEAT, GCW, and FMW-E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shinya Aoki is looking to continue competing in MMA. Veteran wrestler and MMA fighter Shinya Aoki spoke to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-805836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805836","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=805836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}