{"id":157550,"date":"2025-09-20T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157550\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:30:12","slug":"reports-rafael-fiziev-injured-out-of-bout-in-rio-de-janeiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157550\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Rafael Fiziev injured, out of bout in Rio de Janeiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> An undisclosed injury has forced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mma\/players\/rafael_fiziev\/927653\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Fiziev<\/a> to withdraw from his lightweight main event against Charles Oliveira at UFC Fight Night in Rio de Janeiro, multiple media outlets reported Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The promotion has yet to make an official announcement on the news for the Oct. 11 bout.<\/p>\n<p>The reported withdrawal of Fiziev (13-4, MMA, 7-4 UFC) also serves as a blow to Oliveira (35-11 MMA, 23-11 UFC), who was set to compete in his home country of Brazil for the first time since March 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An undisclosed injury has forced Rafael Fiziev to withdraw from his lightweight main event against Charles Oliveira at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-157550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157550","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=157550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}