{"id":32531,"date":"2025-07-29T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32531\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:28:08","slug":"bryce-mitchell-will-struggle-against-elite-bantamweights-says-ufc-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32531\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Mitchell will struggle against elite bantamweights, says UFC personality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryce Mitchell is fresh off a win in the bantamweight division, but one top UFC personality believes it\u2019ll be a tough road ahead.<\/p>\n

\"Bryce<\/p>\n

Mitchell shared the Octagon with Said Nurmagomedov<\/a> on the UFC Abu Dhabi card this past Saturday. \u201cThug Nasty\u201d had his bell rung early and was knocked down, but he weathered the storm. Mitchell ended up scoring a unanimous decision victory, which was a bounce back for him as he was submitted by Jean Silva in his previous outing.<\/p>\n

While Mitchell pulled off the win at 135 pounds, MMA coach and UFC analyst Din Thomas isn\u2019t so sure the success will last. Speaking to MMAJunkie.com<\/a>, Thomas said the competition doesn\u2019t get easier simply due to a change in weight class.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is this. These guys drop weight looking for sort of a magic pill or the answer,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cThe reality is if you can\u2019t win in the top five of your division, you\u2019re probably not going to win in the top five of the division under you, either. It\u2019s not necessarily a size thing for you holding you back. It\u2019s really kind of a skill thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce he gets up against those top guys in the division at bantamweight, he\u2019s still going to struggle. It doesn\u2019t matter. \u2026 It might allow him to beat the guys at bantamweight a little bit easier. The guys he would already going to beat, he\u2019s going to beat them a bit easier. But he\u2019s still going to struggle with the top guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bryce Mitchell has gone 3-3 in his last six outings. He was unbeaten before running into Ilia Topuria<\/a>, who is the current UFC Lightweight Champion. Mitchell earned a decision win over Dan Ige before suffering a brutal knockout loss at the hands of Josh Emmett. Mitchell rebounded again with a knockout win over Kron Gracie before the aforementioned defeat to Silva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryce Mitchell is fresh off a win in the bantamweight division, but one top UFC personality believes it\u2019ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-32531","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\/32531","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=32531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}