{"id":140228,"date":"2025-09-13T04:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140228\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T04:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:52:15","slug":"gable-steveson-smashes-way-to-first-mma-victory-at-lfa-217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140228\/","title":{"rendered":"Gable Steveson Smashes Way to First MMA Victory at LFA 217"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb webpexpress-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gable-Steveson-LFA-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Gable Steveson, LFA 217\" title=\"Gable Steveson LFA\"\/>Gable Steveson, LFA 217 Credit: UFC Fight Pass<\/p>\n<p>Gable Steveson took less than a minute to land his first takedown as a professional mixed martial artist.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take much more than that for him to pick up his first win. All part of the Olympic gold medalist wrestler\u2019s debut at LFA 217 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Against an out-matched, 37-year old Braden Peterson, Steveson avoided an early knee, landed a takedown off a kick, and quickly connected with a smashing elbow \u2013 a sign of what was to come. Peterson would never make it back to his feet, and Steveson would wind up smashing away, securing a first round TKO finish in Prior Lake, Minnesota, with training partner and UFC light heavyweight GOAT Jon Jones looking on.<\/p>\n<p>Steveson arrives to MMA an Olympic gold medalist and NCAA star who originally went the <a href=\"https:\/\/cagesidepress.com\/2020\/09\/01\/brock-lesnar-now-free-agent-mma-fights-make-sense\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Lesnar<\/a> route to pro wrestling\u2019s WWE. After being cut by the company last year, Steveson opted to make the jump to MMA, where his skill set and a beyond shallow heavyweight division could make for a fast rise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a fantastic minute and thirty seconds, and I appreciate all you guys for coming,\u201d Steveson said following the victory, giving credit to his team, including Jones and coach Greg Jackson. He also took a little potshot at Chael Sonnen (a former opponent of Jones) in a WWE-style promo to close out the night.<\/p>\n<p>Steveson\u2019s MMA ceiling remains to be seen, shallow division or not. He got off to a good start on Friday however, and could land on the Contender Series (or straight to the UFC) within a couple of years should all go well for the 25-year old.<\/p>\n<p>Official Result: Gable Steveson def. Braden Peterson by TKO (ground n\u2019 pound), Round 1, 1:38<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gable Steveson, LFA 217 Credit: UFC Fight Pass Gable Steveson took less than a minute to land his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[1857,49,48,639,641,1868,1858,1866,1860,1262,1296,638,1865,1864,1863,1859,1867,82,1861,640,1862],"class_list":["post-140228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-bellator","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-fighting","tag-gsp","tag-invicta","tag-jon-jones","tag-lfa","tag-martial-arts","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-one-championship","tag-one-fc","tag-pfl","tag-rizin","tag-ronda-rousey","tag-sports","tag-titan-fc","tag-ufc","tag-wsof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140228","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=140228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}