{"id":210553,"date":"2025-10-13T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210553\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:32:07","slug":"anything-but-fighting-youssef-zalal-answers-random-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210553\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything But Fighting: Youssef Zalal answers random questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LAS VEGAS \u2014 UFC featherweight Youssef Zalal joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to discuss everything from his rocky relationship with the Star Wars franchise, his love of superhero films, his almost complete lack of concert experience, and more<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A longtime UFC standout, \u2018The Moroccan Devil\u2019 has been on one of the strongest runs of his career. After fighting his way back into the promotion, Zalal has rattled off five straight victories inside the Octagon, including a 98-second submission win over one-time interim title contender Josh Emmett at UFC 320. The performance not only gave him 18 career wins, but marked his 14th by stoppage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 UFC featherweight Youssef Zalal joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to discuss everything from his rocky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-210553","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-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210553","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=210553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}