{"id":879352,"date":"2026-09-04T05:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879352\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T05:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:56:13","slug":"evloev-on-womens-mma-its-so-hard-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879352\/","title":{"rendered":"Evloev On Women&#8217;s MMA: &#8216;It&#8217;s So Hard&#8217; To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-msn-disclosure=\"commission\">This author receives a commission through recommended links in this content. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/affiliate-disclosure\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-bone transition-colors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">affiliate disclosure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 333 title challenger Movsar Evloev questioned the appeal of women&#8217;s MMA in recent remarks that took aim at female fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Evloev, who faces the <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/featherweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">featherweight<\/a> champion in the co-main event next month, said he finds it difficult to watch women compete inside the cage. &#8220;It&#8217;s so hard&#8221; to watch, he said, per Sherdog.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Get tickets: <a href=\"http:\/\/boxingnews.com\/api\/tickets\/click?country=ae&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.ae%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DUFC%2520333&amp;slug=ufc-333-2026-10-24&amp;placement=article-body-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" data-affiliate=\"ticketmaster\" data-placement=\"article-body-1\">Buy tickets to UFC 333 on Ticketmaster \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The undefeated Russian has stayed quiet on his reasoning, but the timing raises eyebrows as the UFC continues building women&#8217;s cards. Former <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/bantamweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bantamweight<\/a> contender Aspen Ladd recently criticised the promotion&#8217;s treatment of female athletes, saying the company shows &#8220;not much care&#8221; for that side of the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Evloev brings a 19-0 record into UFC 333, where he looks to claim <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/featherweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">featherweight<\/a> gold. The card takes place in late August with the weigh-ins scheduled for the day prior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Movsar-Evloev-takes-aim-at-womens-MMA-Its-so-hard-to-watch-202653\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sherdog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This author receives a commission through recommended links in this content. See our affiliate disclosure. UFC 333 title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-879352","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\/879352","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=879352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}