{"id":388857,"date":"2026-01-05T03:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/388857\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T03:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:42:11","slug":"mma-champion-aaron-kennedy-celebrates-title-defense-with-hometown-celebration-in-honesdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/388857\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA champion Aaron Kennedy celebrates title defense with hometown celebration in Honesdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Wayne County, Honesdale native Aaron Kennedy celebrated his MMA victory at Runaway Train Brewery.<\/p>\n<p>HONESDALE, Pa. \u2014 On Sunday, a hometown victory party for MMA fighter Aaron Kennedy was held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/wayne-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Wayne County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The community gathered at Runaway Train Brewery in Honesdale to celebrate the art of war, undefeated bantamweight world champion, defending his title in a fight in December.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy is a 2012 graduate of Honesdale High School.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy trains in Bloomsburg, where they try to host victory parties after each win. This is the first one in his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had people in and out all day, you know, a lot of people I went to school with, people I knew growing up, so it&#8217;s just cool to me on a, on a personal level to kind of, you know, reconnect with people that I haven&#8217;t seen because I&#8217;ve been so busy, you know, fighting and training,&#8221; said Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy is hoping to find an opponent for his next fight. He&#8217;s planning for late march.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Wayne County, Honesdale native Aaron Kennedy celebrated his MMA victory at Runaway Train Brewery. HONESDALE, Pa. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-388857","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-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388857","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=388857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}