{"id":817504,"date":"2026-07-22T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817504\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:04:12","slug":"ex-ufc-fighter-claudio-ribeiro-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charge-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817504\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UFC fighter Claudio Ribeiro arrested on domestic violence charge in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former UFC fighter Claudio Ribeiro was arrested Wednesday on a domestic violence charge in Varzea Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil. MMA Fighting confirmed the news following a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/g1.globo.com\/google\/amp\/sp\/sorocaba-jundiai\/noticia\/2026\/07\/22\/prisao-lutador-violencia-domestica-varzea-paulista.ghtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Globo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to the initial report, Ribeiro allegedly admitted to the police he assaulted his wife following an argument. His wife called the cops after allegedly suffering a broken nose from a punch to the face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ribeiro\u2019s team declined comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ribeiro, 13-6 in MMA with a 100 percent knockout rate, fought four times in the UFC for a record of 1-3 between 2023-24, a win over Joseph Holmes sandwiched between knockout defeats to Abdul Razak Alhassan, Roman Kopylov and Christian Leroy Duncan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 34-year-old was more active under the Karate Combat banner since late 2025, going 3-0 in the promotion with a trio of knockouts over Jayden Eynaud, Michel Borges and Curtis Millender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC fighter Claudio Ribeiro was arrested Wednesday on a domestic violence charge in Varzea Paulista, Sao Paulo,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":["post-817504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817504","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=817504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}