{"id":114672,"date":"2025-09-02T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/114672\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:55:08","slug":"what-happened-to-raul-rosas-jr-injury-behind-ufc-noche-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/114672\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Raul Rosas Jr.? Injury behind UFC Noche revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Raul Rosas Jr. was forced to withdraw from the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/384463\/ufc-noche-3-fight-card-start-time-date-and-location-lopes-vs-silva\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Noche 3 card<\/a>, scheduled for Sat., Sept. 13, 2025 at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/1\/24441000\/noche-ufc-2025-moved-from-mexico-downgraded-from-ppv-to-fight-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not Guadalajara, Mexico<\/a>). As a result, bantamweight veteran Rob Font will now fight \u201cContender Series\u201d standout David Martinez in the \u201cLone Star State\u201d co-main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAs much as I wanted this fight to prove myself against the best in the world, I won\u2019t be able to make it,\u201d Rosas Jr. wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOC8EQeDufK\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cInjured my rib in training when I had someone on my back with a locked body triangle. I was trying to escape by spinning away and pulled it. I tried to push through it but didn\u2019t heal and won\u2019t fully heal in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBarely starting to get back into normal training so hopefully I\u2019ll be back soon,\u201d Rosas Jr. continued. \u201cCan\u2019t wait to be back and earn my spot again against a Top 15 [opponent]. Working my way up. Looking to heal soon and step back in the cage two more times this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Noche 3 will be headlined by the featherweight showdown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/381326\/wacky-jean-silva-reveals-origin-of-diego-lopes-beef-our-auras-dont-match\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">between bitter rivals Diego Lopes and Jean Silva<\/a>. Elsewhere on the card, Jared Gordon and Rafa Garcia hook \u2018em up at lightweight, not long after Jose Medina and Dusko Todorovic collide at 185 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the rest of the UFC Noche 3 fight card click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/384463\/ufc-noche-3-fight-card-start-time-date-and-location-lopes-vs-silva\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raul Rosas Jr. was forced to withdraw from the upcoming UFC Noche 3 card, scheduled for Sat., Sept.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,702,4454],"class_list":["post-114672","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-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114672","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=114672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}