{"id":156665,"date":"2025-09-20T08:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156665\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:21:17","slug":"rafael-fiziev-out-of-ufc-rio-main-event-fight-with-charles-oliveira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156665\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Fiziev out of UFC Rio main event fight with Charles Oliveira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Charles Oliveira needs a new opponent for UFC Rio after Rafael Fiziev was knocked off the card with an injury, MMA Fighting confirmed following a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/octagonupdate\/status\/1969182121848676568?s=46&amp;t=lVOigyzcTdigwf6Y_r0ltg\" rel=\"nofollow\">Octagon Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC has yet to officially confirm the news and if Oliveira will be given a new opponent for the Oct. 11 show in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fiziev (13-4) was looking for his second win in a row after defeating Ignacio Bahamondes via decision in June, his first victory since losing three in a row against Justin Gaethje (twice) and Mateusz Gamrot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Oliveira (35-11, 1 no contest) will headline a UFC event in Brazil for the first time since beating Kevin Lee on a Fight Night event in March 2020, the first card affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cDo Bronx\u201d lost to Ilia Topuria in his most recent bout in June, a first-round knockout that stopped him him from re-claiming the UFC lightweight championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Oliveira needs a new opponent for UFC Rio after Rafael Fiziev was knocked off the card with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156666,"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-156665","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\/156665","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=156665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}