{"id":838632,"date":"2026-08-01T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838632\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:35:15","slug":"freaky-fast-pros-react-to-uros-medics-star-making-knockout-over-daniel-rodriguez-in-ufc-belgrade-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838632\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Freaky fast\u2019: Pros react to Uros Medic\u2019s star-making knockout over Daniel Rodriguez in UFC Belgrade main event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Uros Medic fought in his native Serbia for the first time ever, but didn\u2019t stick around in the cage longer than he needed to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In fact, Medic\u2019s UFC Belgrade main event lasted all of 30 seconds as he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/502753\/uros-medic-lays-waste-to-daniel-rodriguez-in-just-30-seconds-calls-out-leon-edwards-after-ufc-belgrade-main-event\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unleashed a signature knockout barrage<\/a> to put away Daniel Rodriguez and send the Belgrade Arena crowd into a frenzy. It was the fourth straight first-round finish for Medic, who is emerging as a dark horse contender in the increasingly crowded welterweight division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Fans and fighters were wowed by Medic\u2019s performance, with former 170-pound champion Belal Muhammad writing, \u201cWow, that was freaky fast,\u201d and veteran analyst Alan Jouban adding, \u201cMedic would be a great champion. Passionate about the sport, thoughtful in his approach and an absolute killer inside the octagon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Medic not only improved to 14-3 as a pro, he continued his career-long streak of having never had a fight go to the judges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">See more social media reactions from the pros below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uros Medic fought in his native Serbia for the first time ever, but didn\u2019t stick around in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838633,"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-838632","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\/838632","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=838632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}