{"id":75231,"date":"2025-08-17T00:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75231\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T00:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:30:07","slug":"ufc-319-video-joseph-morales-dominates-finishes-alibi-idiris-to-win-tuf-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75231\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 319 video: Joseph Morales dominates, finishes Alibi Idiris to win &#8216;TUF 33&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was nearly seven years between UFC fights for Joseph Morales, but he refused to let his second opportunity slip away.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 319;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 319<\/a> preliminary card opener Saturday, Morales (13-2 MMA, 2-2 UFC) dominated the heavy favorite Alibi Idiris to win &#8220;The Ultimate Fighter 33&#8221; flyweight tournament. Morales submitted Idiris (10-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) by triangle choke at 3:04 of Round 2. The event took place at United Center in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Morales, 30, defeated Eduardo Chapolin and Imanol Rodriguez to reach Saturday&#8217;s final. Although those two bouts were exhibitions, Morales was 3-0 in professional bouts since his UFC departure in 2018. Morales went 1-2 in his first UFC stint but was shown the door after two-straight losses.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Up-to-the-minute UFC 319 results include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Joseph Morales def. Alibi Idiris via submission (triangle choke) \u2013 Round 2, 3:04<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/16\/ufc-319-joseph-morales-vs-alibi-idiris\/85694313007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 319: Former fighter returns for stunning upset to win &#039;TUF 33&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 319: Former fighter returns for stunning upset to win &#8216;TUF 33&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was nearly seven years between UFC fights for Joseph Morales, but he refused to let his second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[43731,49,48,26290,641,43726,638,46238,82,46237,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-75231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alibi-idiris","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-espn-mma","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-joseph-morales","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-morales","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-triangle-choke","18":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75231","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=75231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}