{"id":559504,"date":"2026-07-25T22:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/559504\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:23:17","slug":"ufc-abu-dhabi-post-fight-show-reaction-to-magomed-ankalaevs-stoppage-win-in-lackluster-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/559504\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Abu Dhabi post-fight show: Reaction to Magomed Ankalaev\u2019s stoppage win in lackluster main event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Magomed Ankalaev got back in the win column in his first fight since losing the UFC light heavyweight title, but it wasn\u2019t the most memorable performance in recent memory in the main event of UFC Abu Dhabi. Following the win, should Ankalaev get another crack at the title when Carlos Ulberg is ready to return, or does Ankalaev have more work to do?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Following the UFC\u2019s most recent Fight Night event, MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck and Jed Meshew react to the card, Ankalaev\u2019s victory in the lackluster main event against Bogdan Guskov, and where he goes in a weird light heavyweight division. Additionally, they react to Ramazan Temirov\u2019s brutal knockout victory against Steve Erceg in the flyweight co-main event, Magomed Zaynukov\u2019s successful UFC debut and his ceiling at lightweight, and much more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Watch the UFC Abu Dhabi post-fight show above, or an audio-only version of the show can also be streamed below and on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?xcust=__sb0725awD__479419____r______________google.com&amp;id=66960X1516590&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/id320642139&amp;referrer=sbnation.com\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple Podcasts;elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;affiliate_link&quot;,&quot;yAffiliateService&quot;:&quot;premonetized&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Apple Podcasts&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" class=\"link \">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/27Z2RR39rjGrRcV1DiQ40J?si=5ZS0Lje7QbWITUd60cOb8g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spotify;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Spotify&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Spotify<\/a>, or wherever else you get your pods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magomed Ankalaev got back in the win column in his first fight since losing the UFC light heavyweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1585,253469,253471,85,46,174963,253468,105,253470,158124],"class_list":["post-559504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-bogdan-guskov","tag-carlos-ulberg","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-light-heavyweight","tag-magomed-ankalaev","tag-sports","tag-the-ufc","tag-ufc-fight-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}