{"id":115282,"date":"2025-09-02T22:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115282\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:47:06","slug":"fares-ziam-out-of-ufc-paris-following-death-in-family-replacement-fighter-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115282\/","title":{"rendered":"Fares Ziam out of UFC Paris following death in family, replacement fighter announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fares Ziam won\u2019t be competing in front of a home country crowd this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The French lightweight contender announced Monday on social media that he is bowing out of his UFC Paris bout with Kaue Fernandes following the death of his grandmother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">See Ziam\u2019s statement below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ziam (17-4) is currently on a five-fight win streak, with recent victories over Mike Davis, Matt Frevola, and Claudio Puelles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/news\/updates-ufc-fight-night-imavov-borralho-paris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Tuesday that a new opponent has been found for Fernandes (10-2). Cage Warriors featherweight champion Harry Hardwick (13-3-1) now steps in on less than a week\u2019s notice to face Fernandes on Saturday\u2019s lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fernandes is coming off of a unanimous decision win over Guram Kutateladze this past March, a victory that put him on his first-ever UFC win streak. Hardwick also competed in March, winning a decision over Javier Garcia to notch the second defense of his Cage Warriors title. The Englishman is undefeated in his past nine fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Paris is headlined by a middleweight contender bout between France\u2019s Nassourdine Imavov and Brazil\u2019s Caio Borralho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fares Ziam won\u2019t be competing in front of a home country crowd this Saturday. The French lightweight contender&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-115282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115282","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=115282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}