{"id":723600,"date":"2026-08-02T00:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T00:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723600\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T00:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T00:20:27","slug":"ufc-serbia-uros-medic-earns-stunning-30-second-win-against-daniel-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723600\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Serbia: Uros Medic earns stunning 30-second win against Daniel Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uros Medic put on a statement performance to stop Daniel Rodriguez in just 30 seconds at the UFC’s first event in Belgrade, Serbia.<\/p>\n

Medic returned to his homeland for the first time in nine years, having moved to the United States to train, and sent a message to the rest of the welterweight division.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez, 39, was fighting for the first time since spending eight months in a Mexican jail<\/a> for possession of marijuana.<\/p>\n

Medic, 33, dropped American Rodriguez with a left-right combination before forcing referee Jason Herzog to step in as he finished with kicks and punches on the canvas.<\/p>\n

“It has been a really rough couple of weeks since I arrived home,” Medic said. <\/p>\n

“It didn’t feel like home even though I was on home soil. Now we got the job done I just want to cry.<\/p>\n

“I missed home so much – nine years is a long time. I left as a student at 22 years old with a dream and look where it got me.”<\/p>\n

It was Medic’s fourth successive first-round victory and takes his overall record to 14 wins and three defeats.<\/p>\n

Serbia became the 33rd country to host a UFC card and Medic rose to the occasion in front of a lively crowd on a record-breaking night.<\/p>\n

Medic’s TKO win took the overall tally on the card to a UFC-record 10 first-round finishes, with 12 finishes overall also a new high.<\/p>\n

The number 14-ranked welterweight turned his attention to Birmingham’s Leon Edwards and number-one contender Carlos Prates in the aftermath of a stunning victory.<\/p>\n

“Carlos Prates is way ahead of me in the division but this would be a fight to remember,” Medic said.<\/p>\n

“I asked for Leon Edwards, I think he’s still in hiding, but if he decides to come out of the hole he’s shoved himself into then I’d be glad to knock him out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uros Medic put on a statement performance to stop Daniel Rodriguez in just 30 seconds at the UFC’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-723600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723600","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=723600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}