{"id":919089,"date":"2026-10-03T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919089\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T13:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:12:12","slug":"baku-mma-fight-featured-in-mma-fightings-latest-missed-fists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919089\/","title":{"rendered":"Baku MMA fight featured in MMA Fighting&#8217;s latest &#8216;Missed Fists&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> An MMA fight held in Baku has been featured in the latest edition of Missed Fists, a regular column by combat sports website MMA Fighting highlighting notable and unusual moments from events around the world. <\/p>\n<p>The roundup included the bout between Ummat Jafarov and Nihat Kerimov at the Ased Fighting Championship event in the Azerbaijani capital, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/idman.biz\/en\/news\/mma\/159423\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Idman.Biz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fight ended after Jafarov landed a three-strike combination that sent Kerimov to the canvas. Jafarov followed with several more strikes before the referee intervened and stopped the contest.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MMA Fighting highlighted the unusual way Kerimov fell, with the fighter ending up in a cross-legged sitting position on the canvas. Footage of the finish was included in the latest edition of Missed Fists.<\/p>\n<p>The bout took place at Ased Fighting <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/azerbaijan-earns-silver-at-european-boxing-championships\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Championship<\/a> Selection 16 at Ased Arena in Baku on Sept. 27.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Missed Fists roundup also featured several other notable moments from combat sports events around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Among the knockouts highlighted were Tyjani Beztati&#8217;s counter-knee finish of Daniel Kolasinski at Levels Fight League 24 and Miguel Soares&#8217; stoppage of Heitor Santos at Martial Arts Championship 17.<\/p>\n<p>The roundup also featured an incident at a Krush event in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/alcaraz-beats-arnaldi-to-reach-japan-open-quarter-finals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo<\/a>, where Kei&#8217;s cornerman slapped the fighter before the bout resumed. Soma Kondo later stopped Kei with a kick.<\/p>\n<p>At Tuff-N-Uff 157, Derek Rayfield stopped Oliver Mekkel eight seconds into their fight.<\/p>\n<p>Jafarov and Kerimov&#8217;s bout was included alongside footage from events in Japan, the United States, Brazil, Mexico and other countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/zaur-n\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Zaur N.<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MMA fight held in Baku has been featured in the latest edition of Missed Fists, a regular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[10007,49,48,641,638,316540,82,316539],"class_list":["post-919089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-baku","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-nihat-kerimov","tag-sports","tag-ummat-jafarov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919089","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=919089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}