{"id":837926,"date":"2026-08-01T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837926\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:26:13","slug":"ufc-belgrade-highlights-luciano-silences-serbian-crowd-with-curtain-jerking-sub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837926\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Belgrade Highlights! Luciano Silences Serbian Crowd With Curtain-Jerking Sub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Stephanie Luciano looked better than ever earlier today (Sat., Aug. 1, 2026) at UFC Belgrade LIVE on Paramount+ from inside Belgrade Arena in Belgrade, Serbia, silencing the crowd with a first-round submission (rear-naked choke) over Octagon newcomer Marina Spasic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Not many fight fans had this matchup highlighted on their UFC Belgrade cards, but it delivered from the opening bell. Spasic, who was a big betting underdog entering her UFC debut, looked good in the early minutes with solid takedown defense and a lead jab that was snapping Luciano\u2019s head back. Luciano kept her composure, though, and ended up scoring a flurry of punches that had Spasic backpedaling into the cage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Moments later, Luciano timed a perfect takedown and dragged Spasic to the ground. Luciano quickly moved into full mount, which forced Spasic to turn over. From there, Luciano locked up the rear-naked choke and needed just a few seconds to tighten her squeeze and force the tap. It was pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Check out the video highlights below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For complete UFC Belgrade results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/e\/460490\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephanie Luciano looked better than ever earlier today (Sat., Aug. 1, 2026) at UFC Belgrade LIVE on Paramount+&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,46234,6656],"class_list":["post-837926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-videos","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837926","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=837926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}