{"id":101203,"date":"2025-08-27T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101203\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:29:04","slug":"ufc-rhys-mckee-to-take-on-newcomer-axel-sola-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101203\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC: Rhys McKee to take on newcomer Axel Sola in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rhys McKee will return to the UFC octagon in a welterweight contest against French newcomer Axel Sola at Accor Arena in Paris on 6 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ballymena native lost his first four fights in the UFC before registering his first victory in the organisation in April with an impressive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/articles\/ce3v424vqp1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stoppage win<\/a> over Romania&#8217;s Daniel Frunza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the aftermath of the win, the 29-year-old said he was targeting three fights in 2025 and his second will come on the undercard in the UFC Fight Night Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McKee lost in his previous fight at the Accor Arena in 2023, losing by decision against Swiss fighter Ange Loosa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sola, 27, will make his UFC debut against McKee and the Nice-born fighter is unbeaten in his 11 professional fights, winning 10 and drawing one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rhys McKee will return to the UFC octagon in a welterweight contest against French newcomer Axel Sola at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-101203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}