{"id":968018,"date":"2026-11-12T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/968018\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:12:09","slug":"anything-but-fighting-stephen-thompson-loves-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/968018\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything but Fighting: Stephen Thompson loves anime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">NEW YORK, NY \u2014 UFC welterweight contender Stephen Thompson speaks with MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs about his lifelong love of anime on Anything But Fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In terms of competing, Thompson (17-9-1) will be making the walk to the octagon for the final time of his career against Charles Radtke at UFC 334 in Madison Square Garden. Entering the contest, \u201cWonderboy\u201d has struggled to add wins in recent years after dropping Shavkat Rakhmonov, Joaquin Buckley, and Gabriel Bonfim in his three most recent bouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">To date, \u201cThe Silent Assassin\u201d holds notable wins over Kevin Holland, Geoff Neal, Robert Whittaker, Vicente Luque, Jorge Masvidal, Rory Macdonald, and Johnny Hendricks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, NY \u2014 UFC welterweight contender Stephen Thompson speaks with MMA Fighting\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Youngs about his lifelong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":968019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":["post-968018","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","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968018","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=968018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}