{"id":231313,"date":"2025-10-22T07:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231313\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:18:07","slug":"yair-rodriguez-goes-under-the-knife-out-until-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231313\/","title":{"rendered":"Yair Rodriguez goes under the knife, out until 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yair Rodriguez will not compete again in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/espndeportes.espn.com\/artes-marciales-mixtas\/nota\/_\/id\/15847244\/mma-ufc-mexicano-yair-rodriguez-sometio-cirugia-exitosa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report from ESPN Deportes<\/a>, the No. 3-ranked Featherweight contender and former interim champion underwent surgery on his left hand on Tuesday to treat a lingering problem. Rodriguez is likely to need 2-4 months of recovery before he\u2019s even able to return to the gym, let alone start a training camp. An extremely optimistic timeline could see \u201cPantera\u201d return in the first quarter of 2026, but a Q2 comeback feels much more likely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Who knows where Rodriguez will stand in the Featherweight title mix when he does return next year?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the cage, Rodriguez picked up his first win in two years in his sole appearance of 2025 against Patricio Pitbull. The 33-year-old striker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/4\/12\/24407188\/yair-rodriguez-vs-patricio-freire-full-fight-results-live-play-by-play-streaming-updates-ufc-314\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">picked apart the Brazilian veteran<\/a>, landing lots of hard kicks and punches in one of his better performances in recent memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yair Rodriguez will not compete again in 2025. According to a report from ESPN Deportes, the No. 3-ranked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-231313","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-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231313","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=231313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}