{"id":242203,"date":"2025-10-26T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242203\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:28:07","slug":"kron-gracie-books-first-mma-fight-since-parting-ways-with-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242203\/","title":{"rendered":"Kron Gracie books first MMA fight since parting ways with UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kron Gracie is returning to MMA on Dec. 12 when he faces Tom Picciano for the Victory Fighting League featherweight title in New York, the promotion announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gracie (5-3) left the UFC after losing three in a row between 2019 and 2024, a pair of decisions to Cub Swanson and Charles Jourdain, followed by a knockout to Bryce Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The son of Rickson Gracie is one of the most decorated grapplers to ever transition to MMA, starting his fighting career with five finishes in a row after claiming major grappling championships, from IBJJF world title to ADCC gold medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Long Island\u2019s own Picciano (7-3) enters the cage riding a two-fight winning streak, most recently a first-round rear-naked choke over Jay Pressley in his VFL debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kron Gracie is returning to MMA on Dec. 12 when he faces Tom Picciano for the Victory Fighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-242203","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242203","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=242203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}