{"id":191332,"date":"2025-10-05T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191332\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:57:09","slug":"paige-vanzants-husband-brutally-stopped-in-second-octagon-outing-at-ufc-320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191332\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige VanZant&#8217;s husband brutally stopped in second Octagon outing at UFC 320"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2018Mr. VanZant\u2019 suffered his first UFC loss on the UFC 320 prelims.<\/p>\n<p>The former Bellator title challenger is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ufc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC\u2019s<\/a> oldest signings in recent memory, joining the premier MMA promotion at 34 years old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/austin-vanderford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Vanderford<\/a> won his UFC debut earlier this year at UFC Seattle where he submitted fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ufc-320\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 320<\/a> fighter Nikolay Veretennikov in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the 35-year-old entered UFC 320 as a sizable 3-to-1 betting favorite against Ramiz Brahimaj, who pulled off quite the upset in front of Vanderford\u2019s wife, former UFC star <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/paige-vanzant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paige VanZant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2204058895-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Paige VanZant and Austin Vanderford at UFC 313\" \/>Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLCRamiz Brahimaj scores bloody submission over Austin Vanderford at UFC 320<\/p>\n<p>In the second round of their welterweight bout, Brahimaj landed a massive head kick on Vanderford.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderford kept fighting after getting rocked, wearing a nasty cut on his face.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderford tried to take down Brahimaj to the ground, but to no avail as his opponent attempted a guillotine, getting Vanderford to tap out within seconds.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s three straight wins for Brahimaj, who improves to 5-3 in the UFC Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>Ramiz Brahimaj shouts out Joe Rogan in post-fight interview<\/p>\n<p>After the fact, Brahimaj had a memorable chat with UFC commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/joe-rogan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Rogan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brahimaj put a hat on Rogan\u2019s bald head, giving a shoutout to the podcaster\u2019s show, \u2018The Joe Rogan Experience\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Rogan podcast by night, training by day,\u201d Brahimaj said in his post-fight interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s all I was doing this camp,\u201d Brahimaj added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou obviously did a lot more training and a lot less listening,\u201d Rogan hilariously replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Mr. VanZant\u2019 suffered his first UFC loss on the UFC 320 prelims. The former Bellator title challenger is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[95533,49,48,94794,95534,82,640,44038],"class_list":["post-191332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-austin-vanderford","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-paige-vanzant","tag-ramiz-brahimaj","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-320"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191332","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=191332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}