{"id":472149,"date":"2026-02-13T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472149\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:05:08","slug":"torrez-finney-goes-under-the-knife-for-catastrophic-knee-injury-after-first-pro-loss-ufc-325","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472149\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrez Finney goes under the knife for catastrophic knee injury after first pro loss | UFC 325"},"content":{"rendered":"

Torrez Finney suffered the first defeat of his professional career at UFC 325<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Facing off with Australia\u2019s Jacob Malkoun, Finney really struggled to build his offense in their \u201cPrelims\u201d clash. Finney found himself stuck on the edge of Malkoun\u2019s jab unable to close distance, meaning he couldn\u2019t land effective power punches or attack the hips with a takedown. The damage added up, and by the end of the fight, it was Malkoun who won the takedown battle and a clear-cut unanimous decision to go along with it.<\/p>\n

During the fight, there was a moment early in the fight where Finney\u2019s knee buckled, perhaps explaining some of his in-cage troubles. Indeed, Finney recently revealed that he blew his ACL and both meniscus early in the contest, which makes his survival until the final bell a bit more impressive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank God he\u2019s built me to overcome every obstacle I\u2019ve faced and that will be the story once again,\u201d Finney wrote on social media. \u201cI tore my ACL and both of my meniscus within my knee. Got me into surgery the next day. He said it\u2019s insane I was able to fight tearing that 15 seconds into the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to the Malkoun loss, Finney was undefeated at 11-0 with a single controversial victory<\/a> in his UFC debut. The 27-year-old prospect still has a lot to prove in the Octagon, but he likely won\u2019t be back in action until early 2027 at a minimum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Torrez Finney suffered the first defeat of his professional career at UFC 325. Facing off with Australia\u2019s Jacob…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-472149","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-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472149","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=472149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}