{"id":28994,"date":"2025-07-28T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28994\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:58:09","slug":"bella-mir-wins-fury-challenger-series-14-via-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28994\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Mir Wins Fury Challenger Series 14 Via Submission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bella Mir has a stellar wrestling game, and she proved it by competing in Fury Challenger 14 \u2014 a mixed martial arts competition in Houston, Texas. The Las Vegas, Nevada, native won via submission over Stephanie Calderon at four minutes into the first round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fight was contested in the bantamweight division (126-135 pounds).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mir (4-0) shot a straight single for a takedown and then went to work. She patiently locked in a bar-arm that led to a kimura and a win with one minute left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s folkstyle wrestling right there,\u201d Mir said in her post-fight interview. \u201cThat\u2019s a chicken wing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mir, the first NIL athlete for the UFC, competes for North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She reached the 145-pound final of the 2025 National Collegiate Women\u2019s Wrestling Championships, where she fell to Iowa\u2019s Macey Kilty. Mir transferred from Iowa after placing fifth at college nationals in the 155-pound division.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was Mir\u2019s fourth MMA fight and her third submission. She is also a 2024 IBJJF Blue-Belt No-Gi World Champion, notching a win over 2023 women\u2019s freestyle World Teamer Emma Bruntil along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her father, Frank, was a two-time UFC heavyweight champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bella Mir has a stellar wrestling game, and she proved it by competing in Fury Challenger 14 \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-28994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994","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=28994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}