{"id":821203,"date":"2026-07-24T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821203\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:29:09","slug":"robelis-despaigne-re-signs-with-ufc-after-series-of-knockouts-in-karate-combat-mvp-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821203\/","title":{"rendered":"Robelis Despaigne re-signs with UFC after series of knockouts in Karate Combat, MVP MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Robelis Despaigne is back on the UFC roster after winning eight matches in a row since parting ways with the promotion in 2024, his management team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The UFC has yet to announce a date and opponent for Despaigne\u2019s first fight back in the octagon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Despaigne joined Karate Combat shortly after leaving the UFC with decision defeats to Waldo Cortes-Acosta and Austen Lane, scoring six knockouts in seven wins in a span of 12 months in the company to claim the heavyweight belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Cuban striker returned to MMA this past May to face former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos on the MVP MMA card in Inglewood, Calif., winning by knockout in under three minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Despaigne re-joins the UFC with a MMA record of 6-2 and all wins coming by way of knockout, including an 18-second finish over Josh Parisian in his first octagon appearance back in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robelis Despaigne is back on the UFC roster after winning eight matches in a row since parting ways&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-821203","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","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821203","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=821203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}