{"id":428686,"date":"2026-01-23T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428686\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:49:08","slug":"smotherman-faints-at-ufc-324-weigh-ins-fight-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428686\/","title":{"rendered":"Smotherman faints at UFC 324 weigh-ins, fight canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bantamweight Cameron Smotherman fainted on stage after he made weight Friday for UFC 324 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Smotherman, 28, was scheduled to face Ricky Turcios on Saturday&#8217;s early preliminary card at T-Mobile Arena, but the fight has since been canceled, UFC play-by-play commentator Jon Anik announced.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh no. Cameron Smotherman passed out after weighing in. <\/p>\n<p>Hope he is okay. Just brutal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/olKeceyPa3\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/olKeceyPa3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spinnin Backfist (@SpinninBackfist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpinninBackfist\/status\/2014746177967739370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smotherman regained consciousness moments after passing out and was carried off the stage by his coach and UFC personnel, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aaronbronsteter\/status\/2014747144574664961?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sportsnet&#8217;s Aaron Bronsteter<\/a>. He&#8217;s being transported to a hospital, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexBehunin\/status\/2014747243438583836?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">MMA Mania&#8217;s Alex Behunin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smotherman was looking to snap a two-fight losing streak against Turcios. The Houston-based fighter beat Jake Hadley in his UFC debut in October 2024 but has since dropped fights against Serhiy Sidey and Ricky Simon.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bantamweight Cameron Smotherman fainted on stage after he made weight Friday for UFC 324 in Las Vegas. Smotherman,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-428686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428686","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=428686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}