{"id":346862,"date":"2025-12-15T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346862\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:25:12","slug":"melquizael-costa-gets-first-round-knockout-win-mma-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346862\/","title":{"rendered":"Melquizael Costa Gets First-Round Knockout Win &#8211; MMA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotoballer.com\/player-news\/melquizael-costa-gets-first-round-knockout-win\/1780029\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" title=\"Permanent Link to Melquizael Costa Gets First-Round Knockout Win\" target=\"_blank\">Melquizael Costa Gets First-Round Knockout Win<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Share:<a class=\"share\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.rotoballer.com\/player-news\/melquizael-costa-gets-first-round-knockout-win\/1780029&amp;text=Melquizael+Costa+Gets+First-Round+Knockout+Win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765808711_192_twitter-logo-X-black-icon.png\"\/><\/a><a class=\"share\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.rotoballer.com\/player-news\/melquizael-costa-gets-first-round-knockout-win\/1780029&amp;title=Melquizael+Costa+Gets+First-Round+Knockout+Win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/reddit-round-icon.png\"\/><\/a><a class=\"share\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.rotoballer.com\/player-news\/melquizael-costa-gets-first-round-knockout-win\/1780029&amp;title=Melquizael+Costa+Gets+First-Round+Knockout+Win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/facebook-round-icon.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link copied to clipboard!<\/p>\n<p class=\"player-news meta meta-post-time\" style=\"display:none;\">December 15, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Melquizael Costa extended his win streak by defeating Morgan Charriere via first-round knockout on the main card of UFC Vegas 112 on Saturday. Costa closed out 2025 with his fourth win of the year and fifth since 2024. The 29-year-old Costa became the first man to knock out Charriere, and it took him only 74 seconds to finish him. Costa landed a thunderous high kick that sent Charriere crashing to the canvas. In 1:14 of action, Costa landed four significant strikes. With the win, Costa improved his record under the UFC banner to 6-2. &#8212;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rotoballer.com\/author\/alen5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alen Kurbasic<\/a><br \/>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rotoballer.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UFC<\/a>                <\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melquizael Costa Gets First-Round Knockout Win Share: Link copied to clipboard! December 15, 2025 Melquizael Costa extended his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,135960,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-346862","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-game-recap","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346862","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=346862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}