{"id":233860,"date":"2025-10-30T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233860\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:00:10","slug":"former-ufc-heavyweight-champ-andrei-arlovski-to-make-boxing-debut-at-misfits-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233860\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UFC heavyweight champ Andrei Arlovski to make boxing debut at Misfits event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Andrei Arlovski will continue his tour of combat sports, making his professional boxing debut next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Tuesday, Misfits Boxing announced an event for Nov. 9 at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, where Arlovski will face Nigerian reality star Kelz in a four-round professional boxing match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 46-year-old Arlovski is best known for his time in MMA, where he is a former UFC champion and holds many records in the promotion. Arlovski fought out his UFC contract last year and was not re-signed. Since then, \u201cThe Pitbull\u201d has tried his hand at other combat sports, beating Terrance Hodges in Dirty Boxing at DBX 1 in March and then stopping Josh Copeland at BKFC 76 in June. Now he puts the gloves back on for his professional boxing debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kelz is an influencer and reality TV star who came to prominence for his stint on Netflix\u2019s Too Hot To Handle in 2020. Last year, Kelz made his Misfits debut, knocking out Big Tobz in September, before losing a unanimous decision to Chase DeMoor in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrei Arlovski will continue his tour of combat sports, making his professional boxing debut next month. On Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,913,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-233860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-latest-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}