{"id":260579,"date":"2026-01-23T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260579\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:06:07","slug":"cameron-smotherman-collapses-at-weigh-in-for-ufc-324-as-fight-with-ricky-turcios-cancelled-wwe-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260579\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Smotherman collapses at weigh-in for UFC 324 as fight with Ricky Turcios cancelled | WWE News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fight at UFC 324 has been cancelled after American fighter Cameron Smotherman collapsed during the weigh-in on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Smotherman was due to fight fellow American Ricky Turcios in Las Vegas on Saturday in the undercard for Paddy Pimblett v Justin Gaethje.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old, due to take part in his fourth UFC bout, collapsed after registering his weight.<\/p>\n<p>Smotherman took several steps away from the scale before collapsing onto the floor at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>He was attended to by UFC officials and doctors and had successfully weighed in at 135.5lbs before the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC website stated: &#8220;Due to a medical issue with Cameron Smotherman, his bout with Ricky Turcios has been cancelled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There has not yet been an update on Smotherman&#8217;s condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fight at UFC 324 has been cancelled after American fighter Cameron Smotherman collapsed during the weigh-in on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-260579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}