One of the biggest upsets in mixed martial arts history went down Tuesday on Dana White’s Contender Series.<\/p>\n
Alex Apodaca shocked highly touted prospect Bella Mir in the women’s bantamweight main event, earning a unanimous decision win (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. Mir is the daughter of former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir.<\/p>\n
Bella Mir was a -6000 favorite and Apodaca a +1200 underdog entering the fight, according to the broadcast. After the bout, UFC CEO White announced that Apodaca will receive a contract with the promotion.<\/p>\n
Apodaca outlanded Mir in all three rounds, boasting a 48-30 edge in significant strikes and a 66-33 advantage in total strikes.<\/p>\n
Mir, an accomplished collegiate wrestler who won the 2026 NCAA 145-pound title, struggled to apply her ground skills against Apodaca, completing just one of six takedown attempts.<\/p>\n
Apodaca, a 32-year-old from Austin, Texas, improved to 4-1 as a professional with the victory.<\/p>\n
Mir, 23, suffered her first career loss, falling to 4-1.<\/p>\n
Mir’s father, Frank, is a UFC pioneer. He won the heavyweight title in 2004 and beat the likes of Brock Lesnar, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, and Mirko Cro Cop throughout a pro career that spanned 2001-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the biggest upsets in mixed martial arts history went down Tuesday on Dana White’s Contender Series.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-868603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868603","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=868603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}