{"id":29603,"date":"2025-07-28T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29603\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:50:07","slug":"on-to-the-next-one-whats-next-for-reinier-de-ridder-after-ufc-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29603\/","title":{"rendered":"On To the Next One: What\u2019s next for Reinier de Ridder after UFC Abu Dhabi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"27joMK\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/5633\/reinier-de-ridder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reinier de Ridder<\/a> might find himself in a UFC title fight in his next octagon appearance after picking up the biggest win of his career with a razor-close split decision win over former champ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/1900\/robert-whittaker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Whittaker<\/a>. Could \u201cRDR\u201d face the winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fight-card\/1528\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 319<\/a> championship main event between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/5478\/dricus-du-plessis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dricus du Plessis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/5368\/khamzat-chimaev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p id=\"kkKQQm\">On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee discuss what could be next for de Ridder after defeating Whittaker in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fight-card\/1526\/ufc-abu-dhabi-whittaker-vs-de-ridder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Abu Dhabi<\/a> headliner. Additionally, future matchups are discussed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/4437\/petr-yan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Petr Yan<\/a> following his co-main event win against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6252\/marcus-mcghee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus McGhee<\/a>, along with fellow main card winners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6362\/shara-magomedov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shara Magomedov<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6300\/asu-almabayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asu Almabayev<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6371\/bogdan-guskov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bogdan Guskov<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ITzCo3\">All that and the usual fine collection of listener picks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ikIRJB\">Audio-only versions of the podcast can be found below, on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?xcust=___sb__p_24213730__t_w__r_google.com__d_D&amp;id=66960X1516590&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/id320642139&amp;referrer=sbnation.com\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" has-subtag=\"true\" data-cdata=\"{\" rewritten_url=\"\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/27Z2RR39rjGrRcV1DiQ40J?si=5ZS0Lje7QbWITUd60cOb8g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-the-mma-beat-29878823\/?cmp=web_share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iHeartRadio<\/a>, and wherever you find your favorite podcasts.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reinier de Ridder might find himself in a UFC title fight in his next octagon appearance after picking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[4639,8349,49,48,698,4640,641,693,700,701,638,8076,2551,1394,13019,329,20793,17054,694,82,1462,696,640,702,1617],"class_list":["post-29603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-abu","tag-after","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-de","tag-dhabi","tag-fighting","tag-for","tag-front-page","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mma-fighting-podcast-network","tag-next","tag-on","tag-one","tag-podcasts","tag-reinier","tag-ridder","tag-s","tag-sports","tag-the","tag-to","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29603","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=29603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}