{"id":552194,"date":"2026-03-29T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552194\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:20:11","slug":"ufc-seattle-alexa-grasso-chokes-out-unconscious-maycee-barber-after-ko-of-the-year-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552194\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Seattle: Alexa Grasso chokes out unconscious Maycee Barber after KO of the Year candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexa Grasso reentered the win column at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/breaking-news\/live\/ufc-seattle-live-results-israel-adesanya-vs-joe-pyfer-updates-round-by-round-scoring-highlights-060023976.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Seattle;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC Seattle&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Seattle<\/a> on Saturday. With overwhelming force.<\/p>\n<p>The former UFC women\u2019s flyweight champion ended rising star Maycee Barber\u2019s seven-fight win streak with a devastating left hook in the first round. Then, for good measure, she went for the rear-naked choke as Barber crumbled to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Referee Mike Beltran quickly called the fight, leaving Grasso celebrating and Barber out cold on the mat. Barber remained motionless for at least a minute, with Grasso later kneeling by her side.<\/p>\n<p>It was a surreal scene, and a clear Knockout of the Year candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Barber recovered well enough to take part in the announcement of the official decision and shared a hug with Grasso, who notched her first win in more than three years.<\/p>\n<p>Grasso\u2019s previous win before Saturday night was her stunning upset of Valentina Shevchenko for the flyweight belt at UFC 285 on March 4, 2023. Since then, she has drawn and lost against to Shevchenko, then lost again to Nat\u00e1lia Silva last May.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m back. Alexa without injuries is different. I\u2019m so happy,\u201d Grasso said after the fight. \u201cOf course my striking is always the first weapon, but I was training so hard to get a finish by submission because I trained jiu-jitsu a lot. I wanted the finish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grasso declined to call out any specific opponent, but made her case to UFC CEO Dana White and CBO Hunter Campbell for an event in her native Guadalajara for this year\u2019s Noche UFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexa Grasso reentered the win column at UFC Seattle on Saturday. With overwhelming force. The former UFC women\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[245560,245562,245561,245563,99,6493,154101],"class_list":{"0":"post-552194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alexa-grasso","9":"tag-flyweight-champion","10":"tag-maycee-barber","11":"tag-mike-beltran","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc","14":"tag-valentina-shevchenko"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}