{"id":113764,"date":"2025-09-02T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113764\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:32:08","slug":"highly-touted-cage-warriors-champ-swoops-in-to-save-ufc-paris-match-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113764\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly-touted Cage Warriors champ swoops in to save UFC Paris match up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After just a few hours, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/30\/24477117\/ufc-paris-fight-card-start-time-date-location-imavov-vs-borralho-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Paris<\/a> fight card is back to 13 bouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier on Monday, France\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/386469\/exciting-ufc-paris-lightweight-bout-canceled-after-sudden-death-in-the-family\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fares Ziam announced that he was withdrawing<\/a> from his Lightweight contest versus Kaue Fernandes, a booking that was scheduled to take place Saturday night (Sept. 6, 2025) from inside Accor Arena in Paris, France. It was initially uncertain whether or not Fernandes would remain on the card, stick around as a back up, or be rebooked at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/phre\/status\/1962687131060486628\" rel=\"nofollow\">report from Al Zullino<\/a> and since confirmed to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmamania.copm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMAmania.com<\/a>, Cage Warriors Featherweight kingpin Harry Hardwick will swoop in to save the match up and face off against Fernandes. Hardwick (13-3-1) is an aggressive striker who has defended his 145-pound title twice. He\u2019ll be fighting up a weight class here, but on short-notice, that\u2019ll be helpful in hitting the 155-pound mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hardwick, age 30, is certainly a deserving pick up given that he hasn\u2019t lost since 2020 and has beaten some solid competition, but up a weight class on short-notice is a tall task. Anyone siding with the English newcomer for the upset?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the complete UFC Paris fight card, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/30\/24477117\/ufc-paris-fight-card-start-time-date-location-imavov-vs-borralho-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After just a few hours, the UFC Paris fight card is back to 13 bouts. Earlier on Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,4454],"class_list":["post-113764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113764","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=113764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}