{"id":104003,"date":"2025-08-28T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104003\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:45:11","slug":"raul-rosas-jr-forced-out-of-noche-ufc-co-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104003\/","title":{"rendered":"Raul Rosas Jr. forced out of Noche UFC co-main event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raul Rosas Jr. will no longer be preparing for the penultimate fight of the night spot at this year\u2019s Noche UFC after being forced to withdraw from the card. In news first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNzcjty3GVI\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wristlock MMA<\/a>, the man who utters \u2018Chiwiwis\u2019 will now no longer be competing on September 13th.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Raul-Rosas-Jr.-UFC-UFC-282.jpg\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Raul Rosas Jr., UFC, UFC 282\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The UFC Fight Night 259 bout for Rosas Jr. was planned to be against Rob Font but the former will no longer be in the co-main event spot. Sources told Mike Heck of MMA Fighting that the promotion is actively looking for a repalcement opponent for Font inside Frost Bank Arena in San Antonio but no one has been confirmed, as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Noche UFC offering will be headlined by Jean Silva taking on former UFC featherweight title challenger Diego Lopes in a consequential contest for the hierarchy at 145 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the only bout that has fallen off of the Noche UFC offering this year as Raquel Pennington has also pulled out of her fight against Norma Dumont set for that card in the coming weeks. Also, Edgar Chairez will not compete on this card despite being on last year\u2019s Noche UFC card and his Alessandro Costa fight fell out after the former sustained an injury.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raul Rosas Jr. will no longer be preparing for the penultimate fight of the night spot at this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,46319,59687,59688,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-104003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-noche-ufc","13":"tag-raul-rosas-jr","14":"tag-rob-font","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104003","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=104003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}