{"id":882452,"date":"2026-09-06T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882452\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T20:12:10","slug":"video-ufc-veteran-floors-man-during-police-stop-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882452\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: UFC veteran floors man during police stop in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Marlon Moraes returned to the winning column in MMA recently in Brazil, when he won a decision against Maximiliano Perez in the main event of Liga Monstro Combate on August. 28, and a body cam video of his work as a policeman in Florida has gone viral days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Moraes, who works as a cop in South Florida, had to put his martial arts knowledge to use during a traffic stop on March 27. A man became confrontational against Moraes, calling him a \u201cb*tch\u201d and saying \u201cI can f*ck you up\u201d. Moraes warned the man not to take another step in his direction, and immediately floored him once he did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Moraes, a former WSOF bantamweight champion and UFC title contender, walked away from the sport in 2023 with a record of 23-13-1. He teased a return after signing with GFL, but eventually competed again in 2026 this past August to snap a seven-fight losing skid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Moraes told MMA Fighting he\u2019s not retired, and plans on seeking a deal to fight again in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marlon Moraes returned to the winning column in MMA recently in Brazil, when he won a decision against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":["post-882452","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882452","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=882452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}