{"id":852393,"date":"2026-08-10T00:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/852393\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T00:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:52:10","slug":"luke-rockhold-vs-joe-pyfer-booked-for-raf-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/852393\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Rockhold Vs. Joe Pyfer Booked For RAF 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cBodybagz\u201d is headed to Real American Freestyle (RAF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight champion Luke Rockhold is set to compete in a Catchweight wrestling match against current top UFC 185-pound contender Joe Pyfer at RAF 13, which goes down Sat., Sept. 19, 2026, inside Watsco Center in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The wrestling promotion announced the matchup on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Rockhold has had a tough go in combat sports over the past eight years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He is currently 0-1 in the promotion and will be looking for his first win on the mats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Meanwhile, Pyfer will be making his RAF debut when he steps onto the mat next month. \u201cBodybagz\u201d was most recently in action against another former Middleweight champion, Israel Adesanya, knocking him out in the main event of UFC Seattle (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/431864\/highlights-joe-pyfer-rocks-and-stops-israel-adesanya-after-wild-brawl-ufc-seattle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">So, yeah, his confidence is probably doing just fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">RAF 13 will be headlined by Covington vs. Belal Muhammad, but before we get to Miami, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/raf-wrestling-schedule-cards-live-results\/459092\/gable-steveson-added-to-super-stacked-raf-12-anniversary-card\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the ultra-stacked RAF 12<\/a> is scheduled for Aug. 22 in Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Rockhold is still looking for his first RAF win. Pyfer is looking to add another former UFC champion to his combat sports resume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Not a bad little wrestling match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For much more on RAF and wrestling news click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/raf-wrestling-schedule-cards-live-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBodybagz\u201d is headed to Real American Freestyle (RAF). Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight champion Luke Rockhold is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,264316,82,264568],"class_list":["post-852393","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-real-american-freestyle-raf-wrestling","tag-sports","tag-ufc-mma-social-media-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852393","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=852393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}