{"id":571831,"date":"2026-03-31T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571831\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:47:09","slug":"ruthless-lucas-taylor-posts-victory-in-samourai-mixed-martial-arts-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571831\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruthless Lucas Taylor posts victory in Samourai Mixed Martial Arts tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Taylor joined Samourai, one of the top promotions in Canada and a launching pad to the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Professional Fighters League for those with the chops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Taylor, who trains at Boa Martial Arts, was fighting last weekend for the first time since suffering his first pro defeat on Sept. 12. <\/p>\n<p>Losses at this stage of his career are notable blows to hopes of advancing to the top MMA promotions, while wins keep the dream alive. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can sort of sit on the sidelines and feel sorry for yourself and start questioning whether it\u2019s something you want to do or you can get back on your horse and really go after it with everything you\u2019ve got \u2013 and that\u2019s what I did,\u201d Taylor said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI proved to everyone who watched \u2013 but more importantly to myself \u2013 that this is something I could and should be doing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taylor expects his next bout to take place on May 29, when he will fight for a spot in the tournament semifinal round.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, Taylor joined Samourai, one of the top promotions in Canada and a launching pad to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-571831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571831","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=571831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}