{"id":192111,"date":"2025-10-05T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/192111\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T23:14:07","slug":"austin-vanderford-suffers-brutal-cut-at-ufc-320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/192111\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Vanderford suffers brutal cut at UFC 320"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mr. Paige VanZant a.k.a. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight Austin Vanderford, suffered his first Octagon loss last night (Sat., Oct. 4, 2025) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/391680\/ufc-320-results-live-streaming-updates-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2-ppv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 320<\/a>, getting submitted by Ramiz Brahimaj in the second round inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-320-ankalaev-vs-pereira-rematch-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/393690\/highlights-ramiz-brahimaj-head-kicks-mr-vanzant-gets-the-gilly-at-ufc-320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before the submission, Vanderford <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-320-ankalaev-vs-pereira-rematch-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/393690\/highlights-ramiz-brahimaj-head-kicks-mr-vanzant-gets-the-gilly-at-ufc-320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ate a brutal head kick <\/a>from Brahimaj that instantly split him open \u2014 leaving a deep gash. While the nasty cut wasn\u2019t fully visible on the broadcast, a post-fight photo quickly made the rounds online, showing just how gruesome the damage really was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The wound looked deep enough to require dozens of stitches, though no official number has been confirmed yet. Vanderford, to his credit, tried to fight through the blood and pressure before ultimately being caught in a slick submission that forced the tap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The loss snaps Vanderford\u2019s two-fight winning streak, which included an impressive debut finish over Nikolay Veretennikov earlier this year at UFC Seattle (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/2\/22\/24370599\/watch-video-highlights-ufc-seattle-results-espn-vanderford-vanzant-knockout-push-shove-espn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>). Now sitting at 13-3, the 35-year-old will likely need some recovery time before booking his return \u2014 and maybe a few extra stitches as souvenirs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC 320 results and play-by-play, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/391680\/ufc-320-results-live-streaming-updates-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2-ppv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr. Paige VanZant a.k.a. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight Austin Vanderford, suffered his first Octagon loss last night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,42367,33601,638,82,92726,702,7788],"class_list":["post-192111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-full-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-320-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2-start-time","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192111","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=192111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}