{"id":202861,"date":"2025-10-10T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202861\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:37:10","slug":"oliveira-gamrot-make-weight-for-ufc-rio-1-fighter-misses-by-8-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202861\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliveira, Gamrot make weight for UFC Rio; 1 fighter misses by 8 pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lightweight contenders Charles Oliveira and Mateusz Gamrot made weight Friday ahead of the UFC Rio de Janeiro main event Saturday night in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Oliveira and Gamrot both weighed in at 156 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight Saimon Oliveira was the lone fighter on the card to miss weight. He came in at 144 pounds, a whopping eight over the divisional limit. His opponent, Luan Lacerda, made weight at 136 pounds. The UFC said the fight will proceed as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Oliveira, a former lightweight champion, is looking to get back on track after suffering a knockout loss to Ilia Topuria in a vacant title bout at UFC 317 in June. The Brazilian will compete in his home country for the first time since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Gamrot agreed to the matchup on short notice, replacing Rafael Fiziev, who withdrew due to injury. The Pole is 4-1 in his past five Octagon appearances and could enter the title conversation with a victory over Oliveira, his toughest test to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightweight contenders Charles Oliveira and Mateusz Gamrot made weight Friday ahead of the UFC Rio de Janeiro main&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-202861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202861","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=202861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}