{"id":122930,"date":"2025-09-05T23:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/122930\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T23:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:15:13","slug":"losene-keita-breaks-social-media-silence-after-botched-weight-cut-cancels-hyped-ufc-paris-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/122930\/","title":{"rendered":"Losene Keita breaks social media silence after botched weight cut cancels hyped UFC Paris debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Losene Keita opens up on shocking withdrawal from hyped UFC Paris debut<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOODAXfiAF6\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> post, Keita apologized for his last-second removal from UFC Paris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Fans, I need to start to say sorry to everyone, to Pitbull and his team, to the UFC, Hunter, and to my fans! I\u2019m so sorry to let you down,\u201d Keita began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 25 fights i never missed weight, I have always been profesional with weight, with the promotions and to my opponents, I\u2019ve made 5 title fights, two of them at Featherweight, where there is no allowance and I never missed weight, unfortunatly this happened when it couldn\u2019t ever happen, in my UFC Debut!!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m truly sorry, this was for sure the first time and last it happen on my career.<br \/>I am devastated with this and I just hope UFC give me another chance, because I live for this, this was my dream!! Thank you for your support !\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, it\u2019s uncertain if Keita will get a second chance in the promotion or if the matchmakers will bring an end to his short-lived tenure. Keita hasn\u2019t fought since a TKO win over Ronald Paradeiser at OKTAGON 65 last December.<\/p>\n<p>As for what\u2019s next for Freire, he\u2019s open to getting a spot on the upcoming UFC Rio card, featuring a Charles Oliveira vs. Rafael Fiziev headliner.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Losene Keita opens up on shocking withdrawal from hyped UFC Paris debut In a recent Instagram post, Keita&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,58925,638,68082,82,640,47523],"class_list":["post-122930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-losene-keita","tag-mma","tag-patricio-pitbull-freire","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122930","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=122930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}