{"id":575857,"date":"2026-07-30T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575857\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:05:09","slug":"mayo-man-wins-championship-belt-on-all-ireland-final-weekend-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575857\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo man wins championship belt on All-Ireland Final weekend &#8211; sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">There was even more success for Mayo sport last weekend when Ballina man Dylan Rice won the NAGA Ultra heavyweight Masters Expert division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dylan won two matches by two submissions in the division, hitting an armbar and guillotine to take home the iconic NAGA strap in Dublin last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Ballina native narrowly lost out in the open weight to a seasoned black belt by a single score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was competing as part of the team from SBG Ballina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">These recent wins come after he had double gold-medal success at the Irish Open Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships, held in Dublin in May, when he advanced to representing Ireland in the European Open Jiu-Jitsu Championships, which will take place in Rome next October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dylan&#8217;s victories in the competition marked the start of an incredible weekend for sport in the county with the Mayo senior team winning the All-Ireland Final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Both the NAGA Ultra heavyweight Masters Expert division belt, and the Sam Maguire Cup were taken from Dublin back to Mayo after last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was even more success for Mayo sport last weekend when Ballina man Dylan Rice won the NAGA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-575857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575857","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=575857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}