{"id":666887,"date":"2026-05-13T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666887\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:03:08","slug":"muhammad-mokaev-books-fight-in-topurias-wow-fc-days-after-mvp-mma-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666887\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Mokaev books fight in Topuria&#8217;s WOW FC days after MVP MMA withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Mokaev quickly found himself another fight after being forced out of his fight on the Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano event.<\/p>\n<p>Mokaev (15-0) was scheduled to face former ONE Championship title holder Adriano Moraes on Saturday&#8217;s MVP MMA card (Netflix) at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif., but visa issues forced him to withdraw.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Now Mokaev will take on Jorge Calvo (20-7) in a bantamweight bout at WOW 31 on June 6 from Madrid Arena in Spain, promotion officials <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wowfcmma\/status\/2054503825495535693?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;announced&quot;}\" class=\"link \">announced<\/a> Wednesday morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KOlmeneroMMA\/status\/2054456615299149964?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ABC MMA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;ABC MMA&quot;}\" class=\"link \">ABC MMA<\/a> first reported the news.<\/p>\n<p>Since parting ways with the UFC in 2024, Mokaev is 3-0, including capturing the inaugural Brave CF flyweight title last November. His opponent, Calvo, was on an eight-fight winning streak before losing his Lux Fight League flyweight title in February.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mma\/2026\/05\/13\/muhammad-mokaev-books-fight-topuria-wow-fc-spanish-promotion\/90057895007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Muhammad Mokaev books fight in Topuria&#039;s Spanish promotion;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Muhammad Mokaev books fight in Topuria&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Muhammad Mokaev books fight in Topuria&#8217;s Spanish promotion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muhammad Mokaev quickly found himself another fight after being forced out of his fight on the Ronda Rousey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[111610,49,48,641,245946,638,189792,82],"class_list":["post-666887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-adriano-moraes","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-jorge-calvo","tag-mma","tag-muhammad-mokaev","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666887","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=666887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}