{"id":760487,"date":"2026-06-25T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760487\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:50:11","slug":"ilia-topuria-already-recovered-a-lot-could-make-ufc-return-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760487\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria \u2018already recovered a lot,\u2019 could make UFC return \u2018in December\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cDay by day, he already looks like an entirely different person,\u201d trainer Jesus Gallo told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b7jv4JzJM6Y\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SerEbro EnlosDeportes<\/a> (transcribed by <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2026\/06\/25\/ilia-topurias-trainer-reveals-remarkable-recovery-predicts-2026-return-after-ufc-freedom-250-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>). \u201cObviously, he still feels discomfort, but it doesn\u2019t seem like he\u2019s had any fights really. All the swelling in his face has gone down. All the bruising he had has gone down. To the naked eye, you can see a person who has already recovered a lot, and it has been a week and two days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cWhat the doctor told us was that within six to eight weeks, it should heal properly, especially because there was no orbital bone displacement, so it will heal on its own,\u201d Gallo added. \u201cAfter that, for him to start wrestling again, to start doing things again, it\u2019ll take a little while for it to really solidify there. I think we\u2019re talking about at least two to three months, easily. If you saw us in a rematch or in a fight, it would be toward the end of the year, in December. Who knows? We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDay by day, he already looks like an entirely different person,\u201d trainer Jesus Gallo told SerEbro EnlosDeportes (transcribed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,38688,98879,702],"class_list":["post-760487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-medical-suspensions","tag-ufc-white-house-2026","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760487","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=760487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}