{"id":917750,"date":"2026-10-02T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917750\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:00:09","slug":"first-tibetan-ufc-fighter-eyes-title-as-mma-promotion-seeks-to-expand-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917750\/","title":{"rendered":"First Tibetan UFC fighter eyes title as MMA promotion seeks to expand in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Since its first event in China in 2017, the UFC has grown from a niche activity into a mainstream sport and now estimates it has nearly 18 million fans in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Published: 4:33pm, 2 Oct 2026Updated: 4:33pm, 2 Oct 2026<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Su Mudaerji, the first Tibetan Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter, earned a unanimous decision win in Shanghai on August 29. The 27-year-old\u2019s victory in the Chinese city was witnessed by the largest crowd the UFC has drawn in Asia. The win also moved Su Mudaerji closer to the sport\u2019s top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since its first event in China in 2017, the UFC has grown from a niche activity into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[5806,45,49,48,95,46,641,15674,890,638,44,927,22429,457,82,61,182,3275],"class_list":["post-917750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-fighting","tag-hong-kong","tag-lifestyle","tag-mma","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917750","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=917750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}