{"id":868425,"date":"2026-08-26T00:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868425\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T00:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:16:22","slug":"gregory-rodrigues-reveals-herpes-outbreak-before-ufc-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868425\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregory Rodrigues Reveals Herpes Outbreak Before UFC Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cSo you want to be a fighter?\u201d Rodrigues wrote. \u201cNot every fight happens inside the Octagon. Many of them happen during the preparation for a fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">If you ask me, \u201cGregory, do you like fighting?\u201d Absolutely. I love fighting. God has been shaping me my whole life to be a warrior. But the hardest part for us athletes is the preparation before the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Three weeks before the fight, I dislocated my finger during sparring and ended up in the hospital. My back locked up, I had a herpes outbreak, I got sick, my immune system weakened, I felt pressure coming from every direction, and so many thoughts tried to stop me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">This is the life of a fighter that I chose. And even knowing the price, I would choose it all over again!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSo you want to be a fighter?\u201d Rodrigues wrote. \u201cNot every fight happens inside the Octagon. Many of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,102865,1396,179146,6656,355513],"class_list":["post-868425","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-medical-suspensions","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-results","tag-ufc-mma-social-media-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868425","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=868425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}