{"id":50121,"date":"2025-10-13T02:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ex-ufc-fighter-suman-mokhtarian-murdered-tragic-attack-in-sydney-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T02:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:57:38","slug":"ex-ufc-fighter-suman-mokhtarian-murdered-tragic-attack-in-sydney-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/ex-ufc-fighter-suman-mokhtarian-murdered-tragic-attack-in-sydney-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UFC Fighter Suman Mokhtarian Murdered: Tragic Attack in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Former UFC Fighter Suman Mokhtarian Murdered in Sydney<\/h2>\n\nFormer UFC fighter and MMA coach Suman Mokhtarian was killed in what police believe was a targeted attack in western Sydney.\n\nThe tragic event took place on Wednesday around 6 in the afternoon, while Mokhtarian, 33 years old, was walking in Riverstone.\n\nEmergency services responded to Annaluke Street and found Mokhtarian with gunshot wounds. Despite the paramedics&#8217; efforts, he died at the scene.\n\nMokhtarian competed in the UFC on two occasions, in 2018 and 2019, before dedicating himself to training. He played a crucial role in the development of some of Australia&#8217;s best MMA prospects at the Australian Top Team, alongside his brother Ashkan Mokhtarian.\n\nThe police have established a crime scene and initiated an investigation to clarify the circumstances of the shooting.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A man died in a shooting in a public place in western Sydney today.<\/p><cite>NSW Police Statement<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAround 6:15 pm, emergency services were alerted to a car fire on Riverstone Road, near Clark Street. Firefighters extinguished the fire, but the vehicle was destroyed. Police are investigating whether both incidents are related.\n\nJesse Swain, a Mokhtarian student, paid a heartfelt tribute on Instagram:\n\n<em>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t sleep tonight after hearing the news. Suman believed in me more than I believed in myself, I owe him everything I&#8217;ve achieved in MMA. Anyone who knew him personally knows how passionate and encouraging he was and expected the best from you. He pushed me to heights I never thought I&#8217;d reach when I started, stopped me from quitting at the end of 2024 right before he gave me the professional opportunities and personally told me my potential in the game. I will make sure to fulfill that potential for him.&#8221;<\/em>\n\nMokhtarian was the target of a previous alleged assassination attempt outside the Australian Top Team gym in February 2024.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC Fighter Suman Mokhtarian Murdered in Sydney Former UFC fighter and MMA coach Suman Mokhtarian was killed in what police believe was a targeted attack in western Sydney. The tragic event took place on Wednesday around 6 in the afternoon, while Mokhtarian, 33 years old, was walking in Riverstone. Emergency services responded to Annaluke [&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":[5842,2262,5371,9608],"class_list":{"0":"post-50121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mma","7":"tag-murder","8":"tag-shooting","9":"tag-sydney","10":"tag-ufc-fighter"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50121","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=50121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}