{"id":323699,"date":"2025-12-03T23:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323699\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:48:11","slug":"former-champ-pulled-from-rose-namajunas-fight-at-ufc-324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323699\/","title":{"rendered":"Former champ pulled from Rose Namajunas fight at UFC 324"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Natalia Silva has replaced Alexa Grasso against Rose Namajunas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/406095\/ufc-324-fight-card-start-time-date-location-gaethje-vs-pimblett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at UFC 324<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Silva was expected to get the next crack at reigning flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko; however, \u201cBullet\u201d needs more time to recover following her Zhang Weili victory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-322-jack-della-vs-islam-makhachev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/403190\/valentina-shevchenko-vs-zhang-weili-live-fight-stream-ufc-320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at UFC 322 last month in New York<\/a>. As a result, Silva will take over for Grasso after defeating the former 125-pound titleholder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/10\/24424022\/ufc-315-results-live-streaming-updates-belal-muhammad-vs-jack-della-maddalena-ppv-espn-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at UFC 315 last May in Montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A reason for Grasso\u2019s withdrawal has not been disclosed \u2014 but don\u2019t be surprised to see her resurface at the rumored UFC Mexico City event in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dIf I want to be UFC champion I have to face any challenge,\u201d Silva (19-5-1) told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Streaking-Flyweight-Contender-Steps-in-to-Face-Rose-Namajunas-at-UFC-324-199285\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sherdog.com<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know what happened to Alexa, but I\u2019ll be ready by then. Rose is a really tough opponent. She has great footwork, and when she is not comfortable in the striking she has great takedowns. Me and my team already started to study her to make a game plan to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natalia Silva has replaced Alexa Grasso against Rose Namajunas at UFC 324. Silva was expected to get the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,139445,702,4454],"class_list":["post-323699","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-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323699","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=323699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}