{"id":405944,"date":"2026-07-21T01:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405944\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:19:10","slug":"video-amateur-fighter-secures-incredible-buggy-choke-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405944\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Amateur fighter secures incredible buggy choke in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Farnsworth has a highlight for the ages \u2013 and he hasn&#8217;t even hit the pros yet.<\/p>\n<p>A beautiful finish is a beautiful finish regardless of the competitive level it takes place at. Regional MMA is full of them \u2013 it&#8217;s a big part of the fun. But even then, there aren&#8217;t a whole lot of buggy chokes. Saturday at UNF 34 in Commerce, Calif., lightweight Brendan Farnsworth pulled off as slick a grappling manuever as you&#8217;ll see en route to an amateur title victory over previously unbeaten Rafayel Ktikyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Farnsworth has a highlight for the ages \u2013 and he hasn&#8217;t even hit the pros yet. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[162737,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-405944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-brendan-farnsworth","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}