{"id":409382,"date":"2026-01-14T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409382\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:35:10","slug":"bulking-paulo-costa-ripped-for-ufc-327-jump-to-light-heavyweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409382\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bulking\u2019 Paulo Costa ripped for UFC 327 jump to light heavyweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former UFC middleweight title challenger, Paulo Costa, is moving to light heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cGood morning to all of God\u2019s sons on this blessed earth,\u201d the 34 year-old Costa (15-4) wrote on social media. \u201cExcept for bald, chubby Russians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While he doesn\u2019t outright name the undefeated Murzakanov (16-0), who is on the shorter side of the division at 5\u201911\u201d, the photo below leaves little doubt where Costa\u2019s pun was headed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC middleweight title challenger, Paulo Costa, is moving to light heavyweight. \u201cGood morning to all of God\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,139445,702,4454],"class_list":["post-409382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409382","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=409382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}