{"id":1247,"date":"2023-04-09T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2023-04-09T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T06:44:00","slug":"just-in-adesanya-knocks-out-pereira-regains-middleweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/09\/just-in-adesanya-knocks-out-pereira-regains-middleweight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Just In: Adesanya Knocks Out Pereira, Regains Middleweight Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Israel Adesanya knocked Alex Pereira out cold to regain the middleweight title in the main event of UFC 287.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was the fourth fight between the pair, with Pereira beating Adesanya twice in kickboxing before following the Nigerian-New Zealander into mixed martial arts, where he took Adesanya\u2019s UFC title with a TKO in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But at the fourth time of asking, Adesanya finally beat his long-time rival, freezing Pereira with a right hook in Round 2 before dropping the champion with another and finishing the fight with a hammer fist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the co-main event, Jorge Masvidal suffered a points loss to Gilbert Burns before retiring from MMA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Masvidal, in front of a home crowd in Miami, called time on a 20-year career and praised former US president Donald Trump, who was ringside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Trump sat in the front row with Mike Tyson and UFC president Dana White, and the Miami-Dade Arena crowd erupted when the 76-year-old arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">UK Independent.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Adesanya knocked Alex Pereira out cold to regain the middleweight title in the main event of UFC 287. It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}