{"id":94779,"date":"2025-08-25T13:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94779\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:47:07","slug":"nueraji-taiyilake-plans-more-finishes-after-ufc-shanghai-hopefully-sans-point-deductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94779\/","title":{"rendered":"Nueraji Taiyilake plans more finishes after UFC Shanghai, hopefully sans point deductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiyilake Nueraji met the media Saturday after his win over Kiefer Crosbie at UFC Fight Night 257.<\/p>\n<p>Nueraji (12-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) took out Crosbie (10-6 MMA, 0-3 UFC) with a first-round TKO on the main card in the UFC&#8217;s return to China. But it didn&#8217;t come without a little controversy at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Nueraji hit Crosbie with an illegal knee that referee Marc Goddard said was bad enough for a two-point deduction. Upon the restart, which Crosbie in retrospect has raised issue with given he didn&#8217;t get ample recovery time, Nueraji didn&#8217;t need long to put Crosbie back down and put him away.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Nueraji said fans can expect many more finishes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to thank my opponent \u2013 he chose to keep fighting,&#8221; Nueraji said. &#8220;I broke the rules, but he chose to keep fighting. I never thought about going to a decision, so it didn&#8217;t matter to me. Either I knock you out or you knock me out, so I wasn&#8217;t worried about the point deduction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/25\/ufc-shanghai-nueraji-taiyilake-more-finishes-knockouts-submissions-point-deduction\/85811730007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Shanghai: Nueraji Taiyilake plans more finishes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Shanghai: Nueraji Taiyilake plans more finishes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taiyilake Nueraji met the media Saturday after his win over Kiefer Crosbie at UFC Fight Night 257. Nueraji&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,66182,786,66181,785,85,65941,44865],"class_list":["post-94779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crosbie","tag-fighting","tag-kiefer-crosbie","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-taiyilake-nueraji","tag-ufc-fight-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94779","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=94779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}