{"id":312521,"date":"2025-11-28T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312521\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:51:08","slug":"ronaldo-topuria-barbs-from-a-year-ago-resurface-with-their-new-mma-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312521\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo\u2013Topuria barbs from a year ago resurface with their new MMA partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has always been a fan of combat sports, but he has just taken things up a notch.<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the most recognisable athletes in the world, and his reach goes far beyond football. Even after moving to Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia, his fame has not slowed down.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese forward has been seen at several combat sports events, especially since his move to Saudi.<\/p>\n<p>His interest in MMA even sparked a short-lived feud with UFC champion Ilia Topuria last year after Ronaldo backed Max Holloway to beat Topuria at UFC 308.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese star also claimed that the Spaniard \u2018speaks too much\u2019. He then replied: \u201cI didn\u2019t expect someone like you (Ronaldo) to be unable to distinguish between confidence and arrogance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo has always been a fan of combat sports, but he has just taken things up a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-312521","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-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312521","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=312521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}