{"id":36958,"date":"2025-09-21T05:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fiziev-injured-oliveira-loses-rival-at-ufc-rio-de-janeiro\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:22:14","slug":"fiziev-injured-oliveira-loses-rival-at-ufc-rio-de-janeiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/fiziev-injured-oliveira-loses-rival-at-ufc-rio-de-janeiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiziev Injured: Oliveira Loses Rival at UFC Rio de Janeiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Charles Oliveira vs. Rafael Fiziev Canceled at UFC Fight Night<\/h2>\n<p>The UFC has suffered a major setback by losing the lightweight main event between Charles Oliveira and Rafael Fiziev, scheduled for October 11.<\/p>\n<p>The 155-pound matchup was scheduled to headline the UFC Fight Night in Rio de Janeiro, but Fiziev (13-4) was forced to withdraw due to an injury, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC has not yet commented on Fiziev&#8217;s injury or a possible replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Oliveira (35-11), 35 years old, was scheduled to compete in his home country, Brazil, for the first time since March 2020. He was looking to recover from a knockout loss to Ilia Topuria in their June bout for the vacant division title.<\/p>\n<p>Fiziev, 32, was looking to build on a decision win over Ignacio Bahamondes in June. Before that, he suffered a decision loss to Justin Gaethje on short notice in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Oliveira vs. Rafael Fiziev Canceled at UFC Fight Night The UFC has suffered a major setback by losing the lightweight main event between Charles Oliveira and Rafael Fiziev, scheduled for October 11. The 155-pound matchup was scheduled to headline the UFC Fight Night in Rio de Janeiro, but Fiziev (13-4) was forced to withdraw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[673,290,6963,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-36958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mma","7":"tag-charles-oliveira","8":"tag-injury","9":"tag-rafael-fiziev","10":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}