{"id":382774,"date":"2026-01-02T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382774\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:44:08","slug":"ufc-mma-fighters-and-personalities-ring-in-new-years-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382774\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC, MMA fighters and personalities ring in New Year&#8217;s 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The door is closed on 2025 and a new year is upon us with the arrival of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>A turning of the calendar represents a monumental moment for many. It&#8217;s a time of reflection on the past, and hope for the future in the form of fresh goals, motivations and more.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The MMA community isn&#8217;t immune to those elements, and plenty of fighters and figures from the industry posted on social media sharing their feelings on the past and plans for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Check out their reactions below.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mma\/blue-corner\/2026\/01\/01\/ufc-mma-fighters-personalities-ring-new-years-eye-2026\/87971596007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC, MMA fighters and personalities ring in New Year&#039;s 2026;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC, MMA fighters and personalities ring in New Year&#8217;s 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The door is closed on 2025 and a new year is upon us with the arrival of 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,162942,638,162941,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-382774","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-hope-for-the-future","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-monumental-moment","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382774","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=382774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}