{"id":508787,"date":"2026-03-02T04:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508787\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T04:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:44:11","slug":"anything-but-fighting-ricky-turcios-loves-dragon-ball-z-full-metal-alchemist-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508787\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything but fighting: Ricky Turcios loves Dragon Ball Z, Full Metal Alchemist, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LAS VEGAS \u2014 UFC bantamweight Ricky Turcios joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to discuss everything from his love for Dragon Ball Z, Full Metal Alchemist, anime, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The winner of Season 29 of The Ultimate Fighter, Turcios (12-5) was scheduled to face Cameron Smotherman at UFC 324 in January. However, a horrifying incident during weigh-ins that saw Smotherman collapse on stage after stepping off the scale led to the bout being scrapped. Prior to that booking, Turucios came up short against Bernardo Sopaj and Raul Rosas Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Turcios now moves on to a new booking as he squares off with Alberto Montes at UFC 326 this Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 UFC bantamweight Ricky Turcios joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs to discuss everything from his love&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,44,82,640,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-508787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508787","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=508787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}