{"id":506290,"date":"2026-03-01T00:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506290\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:27:08","slug":"a-washing-francis-marshall-runs-through-erik-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506290\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Washing&#8221; &#8211; Francis Marshall Runs Through Erik Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/francis-marshall\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francis Marshall<\/a> impressed in his latest UFC outing and hopes it&#8217;s the start of consistent upward momentum, as he quickly put away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/erik-silva\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Silva<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-mexico\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Things looked scary for Marshall early, as a wheel kick from Silva in the fight&#8217;s opening minute saw him barely get his guard up. Marshall, however, put his grappling into motion and took over the fight&#8217;s control from there.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall scored a takedown, but Silva threatened a guillotine. Marshall, however, easily got out of it and worked his way into full mount. From there, Marshall got to Silva&#8217;s back and locked in a rear-naked choke to score the submission in just half a round.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Marshall Submits Erik Silva at UFC Mexico<\/p>\n<p>Marshall is 3-3 in the Octagon since winning a contract on Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series in 2022. He came into this fight off a highly controversial split decision loss to Mairon Santos at UFC 313.<\/p>\n<p>Silva falls to 9-4 overall, and he is now 0-3 in the Octagon since his own DWCS win in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francis Marshall impressed in his latest UFC outing and hopes it&#8217;s the start of consistent upward momentum, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,201772,641,30210,638,82,151623,201773],"class_list":["post-506290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-erik-silva","tag-fighting","tag-francis-marshall","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-mexico","tag-ufc-mexico-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506290","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=506290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}