{"id":272880,"date":"2025-11-09T21:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272880\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T21:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:54:09","slug":"ricky-simon-suffers-brutal-chin-cut-at-ufc-vegas-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/272880\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Simon Suffers Brutal Chin Cut At UFC Vegas 111"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight veteran Ricky Simon (22-7) suffered a unanimous decision loss to Raoni Barcelos (21-5) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/400536\/ufc-vegas-111-results-live-streaming-update-bonfim-vs-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 111<\/a> last night (Sat., Nov. 8, 2025), dropping a competitive and entertaining scrap inside the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Barcelos was the sharper fighter over three rounds, Simon showed his usual grit and forward pressure, constantly looking to push the pace and mix in takedowns. Unfortunately, his efforts weren\u2019t enough to sway the judges, who all scored the bout in favor of Barcelos after 15 hard-fought minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Following the fight, UFC CEO Dana White shared a few up-close photos of a nasty gash Simon suffered on his chin during the bout \u2014 along with the stitches it took to patch it up \u2014 and they\u2019re not for the squeamish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the NSFW pictures below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The loss snapped a two-fight win streak for Simon, who was coming off victories over Cameron Smotherman (unanimous decision) and Javid Basharat, whom he brutally knocked out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/2\/22\/24367233\/ufc-seattle-results-live-streaming-updates-henry-cejudo-vs-song-yadong-espn-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Seattle<\/a> earlier this year \u2014 a finish that had \u201cKnockout of the Year\u201d buzz at the time (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/2\/22\/24370598\/watch-video-highlights-ufc-seattle-results-espn-simon-knockout-basharat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At 33, Simon remains one of the more durable and respected veterans in the Bantamweight division, and while the setback stings, he\u2019s still capable of bouncing right back into the mix with one big performance in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC Vegas 111 results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/400536\/ufc-vegas-111-results-live-streaming-update-bonfim-vs-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight veteran Ricky Simon (22-7) suffered a unanimous decision loss to Raoni Barcelos (21-5)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,702,7788],"class_list":["post-272880","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272880","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=272880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}