{"id":1269,"date":"2009-06-01T18:41:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T01:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2009-06-01T18:41:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T01:41:21","slug":"inside-the-fight-game-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Fight Game: Latest News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1270\" href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=1270\"><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1270\" title=\"shogun-mma-6-1-09\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/shogun-mma-6-1-09.bmp\" alt=\"Mauricio &quot;Shogun&quot; Rua\" \/><\/a>By George Hernandez<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>News:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>Mauricio &#8220;Shogun&#8221; Rua has agreed to face new UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida in October.<\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Middleweight Vitor Belfort was unwilling to fight at a catch weight of 195 at Affliction &#8220;Trilogy&#8221; against Gegard Mousasi. So Mousasi will instead face Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Renato &#8220;Babalu&#8221; Sobral at the event.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Veteran heavyweight Mike Russow has signed a multi-fight contract with the UFC and is looking to make his UFC debut at UFC Fight Night 19.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Satoshi Ishii, a Japanese gold medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in\u00a0Judo, has signed with the Japanese based World Victory Road to\u00a0fight in its Sengoku events.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Fredson Paixao\u00a0will\u00a0face\u00a0Cole Province\u00a0at\u00a0WEC 42 in a featherweight contest.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Bantamweight standouts Joseph Benavidez and Dominick Cruz will meet at WEC 42.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Frank Triggs first fight back in the UFC could be against welterweight standout Josh Koscheck at UFC 103.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\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":[127,126,128],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fight-game","tag-mma","tag-shogun-rua"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}