{"id":157101,"date":"2025-09-20T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157101\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:26:07","slug":"rafael-fiziev-injured-out-of-ufc-fight-night-261-main-event-vs-charles-oliveira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157101\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Fiziev injured, out of UFC Fight Night 261 main event vs. Charles Oliveira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another non-UFC pay-per-view headliner in October has taken a hit with Rafael Fiziev&#8217;s withdrawal from UFC Fight Night 261.<\/p>\n<p>Fiziev (13-4 MMA, 7-4 UFC) has suffered an undisclosed injury that has forced him out of the Oct. 11 main event vs. former champion Charles Oliveira (35-11 MMA, 23-11 UFC) set to take place at Farmasi Arena in Rio de Janeiro (<a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/bOQO4M\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN+<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A person with knowledge of the situation verified the news to MMA Junkie on Saturday following an initial report from X user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/octagonupdate\/status\/1969182121848676568\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Octagon Update;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Octagon Update<\/a>. The promotion has yet to make an official announcement on Fiziev&#8217;s removal from the contest or plans about a potential replacement opponent for Oliveira.<\/p>\n<p>Oliveira, 36, was meant compete in Brazil for the first time since March 2020. The promotion&#8217;s all-time leader in finishes, submissions and bonuses is 3-3 in his past six fights, and is hanging on to his No. 4 spot in the latest USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/rankings\/light\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lightweight rankings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">lightweight rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No. 12-ranked Fiziev, 32, who is coming off a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-abc-8-results-rafael-214709571.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:unanimous decision win;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unanimous decision win<\/a>\u00a0over Ignacio Bahamondes at UFC on ABC 8 in June to snap a three-fight losing skid. He had a big opportunity to jump up the rankings, but now his next move is uncertain depending on the severity of his injury.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The latest UFC Fight Night 261 lineup includes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Charles Oliveira vs. opponent TBA<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Montel Jackson<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jhonata Diniz vs. Mario Pinto<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Vicente Luque vs. Santiago Ponzinibbio<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gabriel Bonfim vs. Randy Brown<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Clayton Carpenter vs. Jafel Filho<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thomas Petersen vs. Vitor Petrino<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Stewart Nicoll vs. Lucas Rocha<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs. Julia Polastri<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mohammed Usman vs. Valter Walker<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kaan Ofli vs. Ricardo Ramos<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lucas Almeida vs. Michael Aswell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Stephanie Luciano vs. Ravena Oliveira<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">HyunSung Park vs. Bruno Silva<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Danny Barlow vs. Djorden Santos<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Irina Alekseeva vs. Bia Mesquita<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/09\/20\/rafael-fiziev-injured-out-vs-charles-oliveira-ufc-fight-night-261-rio\/86263284007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rafael Fiziev injured, out of UFC Rio main event vs. Charles Oliveira;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rafael Fiziev injured, out of UFC Rio main event vs. Charles Oliveira<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another non-UFC pay-per-view headliner in October has taken a hit with Rafael Fiziev&#8217;s withdrawal from UFC Fight Night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,15503,641,638,1302,40591,82,36996],"class_list":["post-157101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charles-oliveira","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-rafael-fiziev","tag-sports","tag-ufc-fight-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157101","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=157101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}