{"id":343341,"date":"2025-12-13T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/343341\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:18:07","slug":"ufc-vegas-112-loses-strawweight-contender-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/343341\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 112 loses strawweight contender bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Vegas 112 has lost one of its most high-stakes fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A strawweight bout between top contenders Amanda Lemos (15-5-1) and Gillian Robertson (16-8) has been removed from Saturday\u2019s lineup at UFC APEX with Lemos withdrawing due to illness. The UFC later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/news\/updates-ufc-fight-night-royval-vs-kape\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> it was a \u201cmedical issue\u201d for Lemos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Robertson was first to reveal the news via a post on Instagram Stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The nature of Lemos\u2019 illness is not known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is a major disappointment for both fighters, who could have vaulted to the front of the 115-pound contender line with a win. Lemos is coming off of a loss to Tatiana Suarez and has alternated wins and losses in her past six fights, but that stretch includes a decision victory over current champion Mackenzie Dern from February 2024. Had Lemos earned a title shot, it would have been her second crack at UFC gold after losing to Zhang Weili at UFC 292.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Robertson has won five of six fights since making a permanent drop down from 125 pounds, including four straight victories. In her most recent outing this past May, Robertson defeated Marina Rodriguez via second-round knockout. Finishes are nothing new for Robertson, who owns the record for the most submission finishes by a woman in UFC history, as well as the most wins inside the distance in the women\u2019s flyweight division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Vegas 112 is headlined by a men\u2019s flyweight contender bout between Brandon Royval and Manel Kape. The card now proceeds with 12 scheduled bouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 112 has lost one of its most high-stakes fights. A strawweight bout between top contenders Amanda&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-343341","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-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343341","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=343341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}