{"id":250616,"date":"2025-10-30T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250616\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:32:07","slug":"video-former-ufc-champ-involved-in-high-speed-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250616\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Former UFC champ involved in \u2018high speed\u2019 accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former UFC flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo, who is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-events-ppv\/399407\/mackenzie-dern-crashes-pound-for-pound-top-10-ufc-321-rankings-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Top 10 contender at 135 pounds<\/a>, was involved in a serious auto accident earlier today in Brazil. Fortunately, Figueiredo was able to escape the wreck without any serious injuries and is not expected to miss any time away from the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThank God for the deliverance,\u201d Figueiredo wrote on Instagram. \u201cI had an accident today. I was following on Quintino Bocaiuva Street, going towards Gentil Bitencount. A lady at high speed, apparently seemed to be on the run, emerged from a secondary street, named Caripuna hitting the middle of my vehicle that I had flipped over several times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s video of the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 37 year-old Figueiredo was able to rebound from back-to-back losses with a split decision victory over Montel Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/395531\/ufc-rio-results-biggest-winners-loser-from-oliveira-vs-gamrot-last-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at UFC Rio earlier this month in Brazil<\/a>. As it stands, the former flyweight champ is expected to make his Octagon return at some point in early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo, who is now a Top 10 contender at 135 pounds, was involved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,9468],"class_list":["post-250616","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","tag-ufc-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250616","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=250616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}