{"id":13178,"date":"2023-04-09T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T15:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13178"},"modified":"2023-04-09T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T15:17:01","slug":"adesanya-knocks-out-pereira-regains-middleweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13178","title":{"rendered":"Adesanya Knocks Out Pereira, Regains Middleweight Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Israel Adesanya knocked Alex Pereira out cold to regain the middleweight title in the main event of UFC 287.<\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6777,6838,6837],"class_list":["post-13178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-israel-adesanya","tag-middleweight-title","tag-pereira"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13180,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178\/revisions\/13180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}