{"id":921974,"date":"2026-10-09T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921974\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:22:10","slug":"watch-gabriel-almeida-tap-out-gilbert-burns-at-ufc-bjj-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921974\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Gabriel Almeida tap out Gilbert Burns at UFC BJJ 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Gilbert Burns suffered his first defeat under the UFC BJJ banner Thursday night in Las Vegas, losing by first-round heel hook to fellow Brazilian talent Gabriel Almeida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The retired MMA fighter was victorious in his UFC BJJ debut back in June, when he tapped out Horlando Monteiro with a rear-naked choke, and returned to UFC BJJ less than a month after a tech fall defeat to Khamzat Chimaev under wrestling rules at RAF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cDurinho\u201d shot for a takedown early in the match and quickly escaped a guillotine threat from Almeida, but wasn\u2019t able to do much from top position. Almeida managed to get to top position later in the round, going for the neck and before moving on to a leg attack. Burns did his best to avoid the position, but Almeida secured the heel hook for the tap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UFC BJJ 12 was headlined by two championship matches, with Cassia Moura scoring a split decision over Adele Fornarino to remain flyweight champion, while Renato Canuto defeated Ethan Crelinsten via unanimous decision in the co-main event to capture the vacant lightweight belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gilbert Burns suffered his first defeat under the UFC BJJ banner Thursday night in Las Vegas, losing by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921975,"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-921974","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\/921974","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=921974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}