{"id":205966,"date":"2025-10-11T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/205966\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:08:07","slug":"highlights-luan-lacerda-repays-heavy-oliveira-for-horrid-weight-miss-sparks-ufc-rio-with-slick-armbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/205966\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights! Luan Lacerda repays heavy Oliveira for horrid weight miss, sparks UFC Rio with slick armbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Luan Lacerda sparked the \u201cPrelims\u201d undercard with an impressive finish earlier tonight (Sat., Oct. 11, 2025) at UFC Rio LIVE on <a href=\"http:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/566982\/9070?sharedid=MMAMania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a> from inside Farmasi Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, stopping fellow Brazilian, Saimon Oliveira, with a slick second-round submission (armbar).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In case you missed it, Oliveira <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-weigh-in-video\/395109\/ufc-rio-fighter-missed-weight-eight-pounds-allowed-compete-anyway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">badly missed weight<\/a> Friday and was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-weigh-in-video\/395109\/ufc-rio-fighter-missed-weight-eight-pounds-allowed-compete-anyway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cough up 50% of his fight purse<\/a>. A case could have been made that the promotion should have canceled the fight, but both fighters still wanted to compete. Despite Lacerda getting a hefty pay increase from half of Oliveira\u2019s purse, the risk of fighting a much-heavier opponent was still there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Luckily for Lacerda, Oliveira\u2019s weight advantage didn\u2019t play that big of a factor at all. The bantamweight prospect was able to utilize his wrestling and grappling early on to keep Oliveira on the defensive. Oliveira was able to gain top control in the second round, but that\u2019s when Lacerda locked up a tight armbar, reversed Oliveira, left him belly down, and forced the tap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It was a memorable start to the card to say the least and a perfect way for Lacerda to repay Oliveira for a horrid weight miss earlier this week. Check out the final moments below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC Rio results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/e\/394268\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luan Lacerda sparked the \u201cPrelims\u201d undercard with an impressive finish earlier tonight (Sat., Oct. 11, 2025) at UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,702,7788,9468],"class_list":["post-205966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results","tag-ufc-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205966","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=205966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}