{"id":128362,"date":"2025-09-08T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128362\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:15:15","slug":"tim-elliott-reveals-he-suffered-serious-injury-against-kai-asakura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128362\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Elliott reveals he suffered serious injury against Kai Asakura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tim Elliott\u2019s latest win came with a price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The veteran flyweight revealed Saturday that he suffered a broken leg in his fight with Kai Asakura at UFC 319 this past August. Elliott won that fight by guillotine choke submission in the second round, but it will be a while before he can follow up on that impressive performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out Elliott\u2019s social media post below, in which he also shared an X-ray of his leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cCat\u2019s out of the bag,\u201d Elliott wrote. \u201c[Asakura] broke my bitch ass leg when he kicked me in the first round. I\u2019m not ducking [Charles Johnson] that\u2019s a fight I like, but it\u2019s looking like an eight-week ordeal!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Johnson responded to Elliott\u2019s tweet, letting him know he understood and the fighters had a respectful exchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Elliott, 38, is likely eager to book a fight as soon as possible as his win over Asakura made it two straight victories and six in his past eight for the 35-fight veteran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Elliott\u2019s latest win came with a price. The veteran flyweight revealed Saturday that he suffered a broken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128363,"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-128362","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\/128362","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=128362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}