{"id":761,"date":"2025-07-16T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:05:08","slug":"calvin-kattar-issues-statement-on-ufc-nashville-loss-after-breaking-foot-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Kattar issues statement on UFC Nashville loss after breaking foot early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Kattar had to battle through some early adversity at UFC on ESPN 70.<\/p>\n<p>Kattar (23-9 MMA, 7-7 UFC) lost a unanimous decision to Steve Garcia (17-5 MMA, 6-2 UFC) in their featherweight bout this past Saturday at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. Once on the cusp of title contention, Kattar now has lost five fights in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMJPeh7yWBV\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> to open up on the loss, revealing that he injured his foot badly in Round 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thankful for my family, team and those that came out or tuned in to the fight,&#8221; Kattar wrote. &#8220;Pushed through a lot just to get to the fight and even more when it started. Broke my foot in the first round in two places but content that I was able to make it through to the end even though came up short. Congrats to my opponent on top 15, well earned. Time for some recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kattar hasn&#8217;t won a fight since defeating Giga Chikadze in the UFC on ESPN 32 main event in January 2022. He holds notable wins over Dan Ige, Jeremy Stephens and Ricardo Lamas.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/07\/16\/ufc-nashville-calvin-kattar-reveals-major-injury-loss\/85232116007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC on ESPN 70: Calvin Kattar reveals major injury early in loss;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC on ESPN 70: Calvin Kattar reveals major injury early in loss<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calvin Kattar had to battle through some early adversity at UFC on ESPN 70. Kattar (23-9 MMA, 7-7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,1158,48,1161,641,1162,638,82,1159,640,1160],"class_list":{"0":"post-761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calvin-kattar","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-kattar","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-steve-garcia","17":"tag-ufc","18":"tag-unanimous-decision"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","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=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}