{"id":510712,"date":"2026-03-03T02:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510712\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:58:08","slug":"the-thrill-and-agony-ufc-fight-night-268-winner-and-loser-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510712\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thrill and Agony: UFC Fight Night 268 winner and loser reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early days when the sport was anything but a mainstream endeavor, the MMA industry has thrived and survived through various websites, forums, and \u2013 perhaps most importantly \u2013 social-media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters interact with fans, each other and many more through the likes of X, Facebook and Instagram, which helps outsiders get a deeper look into the minds of the athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Following Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-mexico-city-moreno-vs-almabayev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Fight Night 268;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 268<\/a> in Mexico City, several of the winning and losing fighters, along with their coaches, training partners or family members, took to social media to react to the event or share a message with supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of those reactions.<\/p>\n<p>The defeated: Erik SilvaThe defeated: Ernesta KareckaiteThe defeated: Douglas Silva de AndradeThe defeated: Kris MoutinhoThe defeated: Jose Daniel MedinaThe victorious: Damian Pinas<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The victorious: Francis MarshallThe victorious: Javier ReyesThe victorious: Ailin PerezThe victorious: Ryan GandraThe victorious: Santiago LunaThe victorious: Imanol RodriguezThe victorious: King GreenThe victorious: David MartinezThe victorious: Lone&#8217;er Kavanagh<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mma\/blue-corner\/2026\/03\/02\/ufc-mexico-reactions-winners-losers-social-media-x-instagram\/88935265007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Thrill and Agony: UFC Mexico winner and loser reactions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Thrill and Agony: UFC Mexico winner and loser reactions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the early days when the sport was anything but a mainstream endeavor, the MMA industry has thrived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,78632,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-510712","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-facebook-and-instagram","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510712","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=510712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}