{"id":148469,"date":"2025-08-15T18:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148469\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:25:11","slug":"ufc-319-loses-middleweight-fight-just-hours-before-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148469\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 319 loses middleweight fight just hours before event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bryan Battle\u2019s week just went from bad to worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/news\/updates-ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> Friday that Battle\u2019s middleweight matchup with Nursulton Ruziboev at UFC 319 has been cancelled after Battle missed weight by four pounds at the official morning weigh-ins. Initially, the bout was to proceed at a catchweight with Battle forfeiting 30 percent of his purse as penalty, but their fight is now officially off Saturday\u2019s card in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Battle (12-2, 1 NC) faces an uncertain future after missing weight for a second consecutive fight. \u201cThe Butcher\u201d won The Ultimate Fighter 29 as a middleweight, then later dropped down to the 170-pound division where he missed weight twice. The second time came this past December, when he weighed 175 pounds for a fight with Randy Brown before going on to win a narrow split decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Despite returning to middleweight, Battle still missed weight, coming in at 190 pounds four pounds over the limit (including one-pound allowance for a non-title fight) for his fight with Ruziboev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Battle\u2019s week just went from bad to worse. The UFC announced Friday that Battle\u2019s middleweight matchup with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[105,62,552,562,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-148469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-latest-news","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-ufc","11":"tag-ufc-news","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115034189306053900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}