{"id":451661,"date":"2026-02-03T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451661\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:14:08","slug":"hand-injury-nukes-ufc-mexico-city-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451661\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand injury nukes UFC Mexico City main event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI injured my hand two days before our flight,\u201d Almabayev wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUSL_qyjERs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about the injury. I\u2019ve never refused a fight, no matter who I fight, no matter what the situation, the preparation is at a good level. It\u2019s done, no matter how much you kick, I can\u2019t change it. I still have five fights left, I\u2019ve been extended for a new contract, there are still many interesting battles ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A timetable for his return has yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No word yet on whether or not former champ Brandon Moreno will remain atop the Mexico City fight card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ordinarily, the promotion would elevate the co-main event to headlining status but the current UFC Mexico City lineup, streaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/c\/482924\/175360\/3065?subId1=SBNation&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paramountplus.com%2Frecommended%2Fnews%2F1010954%2Fufc-paramount-plus-streaming-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a>, doesn\u2019t offer much support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Macy Chiasson vs. Ailin Perez<br \/>Damian Pinas vs. Wesley Schultz<br \/>Ryan Gandra vs. Jose Medina<br \/>Felipe Bunes vs. Edgar Chairez<br \/>Kevin Borjas vs. Imanol Rodriguez<br \/>David Martinez vs. Marlon Vera<br \/>Francis Marshall vs. Erik Silva<br \/>Santiago Luna vs. Angel Pacheco<br \/>Kris Moutinho vs. Cristian Quinonez<br \/>Ernesta Kareckaite vs. Sofia Montenegro<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Mexico City is booked for Arena CDMX in Mexico City, Mexico, on Feb. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI injured my hand two days before our flight,\u201d Almabayev wrote on Instagram. \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451662,"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-451661","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\/451661","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=451661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}