{"id":762476,"date":"2026-06-26T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762476\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:13:13","slug":"morning-report-sean-omalley-says-rematch-with-petr-yan-is-the-biggest-fight-in-bantamweight-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762476\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Report: Sean O\u2019Malley says rematch with Petr Yan is \u2018the biggest fight in bantamweight history\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Strickland is hoping to return to the octagon by the end of the year. <\/p>\n<p>While going on a bit of a journey on Twitter, Strickland responded to a fan who showed enthusiasm toward&#8217;s the middleweight champion competing again following his title win over Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 328. <\/p>\n<p>Strickland responded, which you can <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1595968338557284&amp;set=a.812490556905070\" target=\"_blank\">check out here<\/a>, saying he&#8217;s planning a December return. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just can&#8217;t become a fat POS while I heal up,&#8221; Strickland added. <\/p>\n<p>Who should Strickland face in his first title defense of his new reign? Sound off, MMAF community! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland is hoping to return to the octagon by the end of the year. While going on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-762476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762476","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=762476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}