{"id":428769,"date":"2026-01-23T20:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428769\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:39:09","slug":"ufc-324-fighter-cameron-smotherman-faints-faceplants-on-weigh-ins-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428769\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 324 fighter Cameron Smotherman faints, faceplants on weigh-ins stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weight-cutting has long been a controversial topic in combat sports, and Friday&#8217;s UFC 324 official weigh-ins showed the dark side of dehydration.<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight Cameron Smotherman made his mark of 136 pounds, but as he walked away from the scale, he lost consciousness and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MMAJunkie\/status\/2014749532987490387\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:faceplanted hard on stage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">faceplanted hard on stage<\/a>. Smotherman was down for several minutes as commission, promotion, and medical workers tended to him. He appeared to faint again and was carried off by staff.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Smotherman was transported to a local hospital. MMA Junkie has reached out to Smotherman&#8217;s representation for an update on his health when it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Smotherman was scheduled to fight Ricky Turcios on the preliminary card of UFC 324, but the bout has been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/01\/23\/ufc-324-cameron-smotherman-faint-weigh-ins-passes-out\/88319220007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Scary scenes: UFC 324 fighter faints, faceplants on weigh-ins stage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Scary scenes: UFC 324 fighter faints, faceplants on weigh-ins stage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weight-cutting has long been a controversial topic in combat sports, and Friday&#8217;s UFC 324 official weigh-ins showed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,178759,48,1263,178760,641,178762,638,178761,82,640],"class_list":["post-428769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-cameron-smotherman","tag-canada","tag-combat-sports","tag-controversial-topic","tag-fighting","tag-medical-workers","tag-mma","tag-smotherman","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428769","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=428769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}