{"id":1981,"date":"2009-07-23T00:03:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T07:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2009-07-23T00:03:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T07:03:51","slug":"inside-the-fight-gamebreaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Fight Game:Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1982\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1982\" href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=1982\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1982\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/barnett-mma-7-22.jpg\" alt=\"Josh Barnett out of Fedor Fight\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Barnett out of Fedor Fight<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->By George Hernandez<\/p>\n<p>Barnett out of Fedor Bout \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Affliction Entertainment Vice President Tom Atencio confirmed Wednesday that Josh Barnett has been pulled from an August\u00a01 matchup against Fedor Emelianenko.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Affliction is looking for a replacement to face the heavyweight king\u00a0at Affliction &#8220;Trilogy&#8221; August 1st.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources say that the California State Athletic Commission will not license\u00a0Barnett after a positive test result.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barnett said he had not been notified of any issues with his eligibility as of Tuesday evening. \u201cI took my test three weeks ago. I would have thought I would have heard something by now,\u201d Barnett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Middleweight Vitor Belfort has agreed in principle to face the world\u2019s No. 1 heavyweight on in less then two weeks, Belfort was getting ready for his bout with Jorge Santiago that night.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another possible replacement is former pro wrestler and undeafted MMA rising heavyweight Bobby Lashley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,446,445],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-affliction","tag-fedor-eelianenko","tag-josh-barnett"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}