{"id":697674,"date":"2026-05-27T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697674\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:41:09","slug":"watch-texas-am-heisman-winner-johnny-manziel-tko-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697674\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Texas A&#038;M Heisman winner Johnny Manziel TKO opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Manziel isn&#8217;t throwing the football for a payday anymore; now he&#8217;s throwing punches and kicks.<\/p>\n<p>The former<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/tamu\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"> Texas A&amp;M football <\/a>star who won a\u00a0Heisman Trophy with the Aggies in 2012 made his fighting debut this past weekend. Manziel, 33, fought social media personality Bob\u00a0Menery in an amateur MMA bout as part of the\u00a0the Brand Risk 14 event in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t exactly a\u00a0technical showcase, but Manziel won in the first round, mounting and striking\u00a0Menery repeatedly\u00a0before the referee called the fight. The former athlete then rose to his feet and performed UFC champion Israel Adesayna&#8217;s trademark celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was good enough for one time,&#8221; Manziel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Manziel isn&#8217;t throwing the football for a payday anymore; now he&#8217;s throwing punches and kicks. The former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,1991,638,82,5917],"class_list":["post-697674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-johnny-manziel","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-texas-am-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697674","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=697674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}