{"id":374269,"date":"2025-12-29T02:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374269\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T02:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:35:06","slug":"will-fleury-crushes-ex-ufc-heavyweight-martin-buday-at-oktagon-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374269\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Fleury crushes ex-UFC Heavyweight Martin Buday at OKTAGON 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Two-division champion Will Fleury proved he\u2019s on a different level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fleury made shockingly quick work of former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight and ex-OKTAGON champion Martin Buday, stopping him in under two minutes in the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/regional-mma-news-results\/411427\/oktagon-81-fight-card-start-time-date-and-location-fleury-vs-buday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OKTAGON 81<\/a> today (Sun., Dec. 28, 2026) inside the O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">None of that mattered once the cage door closed, as Fluery had a perfect performance with terrific footwork and boxing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fleury (16-3) has been on a tear since signing with OKTAGON in 2024, rattling off five straight wins with the promotion and finishing three of those opponents. He first captured the Light Heavyweight title by defeating longtime OKTAGON fixture Karlos Vemola, then kicked off 2025 by claiming the vacant Heavyweight belt with a win over Lazar Todev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for what\u2019s next, all signs point toward a rematch with Daniel Skvor, who has reeled off four straight finishes since their first meeting in Fleury\u2019s OKTAGON debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To checkout more international MMA news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/international-mma-news-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-division champion Will Fleury proved he\u2019s on a different level. Fleury made shockingly quick work of former Ultimate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,50911,33601,638,22248,82,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-374269","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-international-mma-news-results","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-regional-mma-news-results","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374269","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=374269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}