{"id":772565,"date":"2026-07-01T04:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772565\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T04:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:23:07","slug":"is-this-the-quickest-mma-fight-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772565\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the quickest MMA fight ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 30, 2026, 10:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Is this the quickest fight of all time? Is it even a fight?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">These are questions to ponder as you watch the bizarreness that was a two-second &#8220;battle&#8221; at Lions Fights 23 in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. A bantamweight bout between Matheus Kokama and Michel Pantoja ended as it began \u2013 quite literally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Pantoja (1-3) tapped out immediately upon the fight&#8217;s start, leading to confusion and a big shrug from the referee. Kokama (1-4) also appeared baffled, trying to process what had just occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">So was it out of fear, an attempt to game the system for a paycheck, or something more nefarious?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Pantoja does not have the best record, but no past history of quitting at a fight&#8217;s start \u2013 something that is not common, but not unheard of either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Anyway, the record books (or at least one of them) won&#8217;t count it. Database Tapology says the bout will be flagged as record-ineligible as it was not hard-fought to international standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/blue-corner\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Corner<\/a>\u00a0is MMA Junkie&#8217;s blog space. If you come complaining to us that something you read here is not hard-hitting news, that&#8217;s on you.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/83597915007-tomaspinallufc-3041.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 30, 2026, 10:00 p.m. ET Is this the quickest fight of all time? Is it even a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[159202,49,48,641,638,241803,82,163937,163938,159097,159087,159096,159750,159089,159085],"class_list":["post-772565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sourcemma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsmmablue-corner","tag-sstsnblue-corner","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagonline-video","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772565","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=772565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}