{"id":1853,"date":"2023-08-01T09:16:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T08:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2023-08-01T15:27:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:27:58","slug":"sean-omalley-is-shocked-by-zabit-majomedsharipovs-statement-that-he-refused-a-fight-opportunity-for-the-ufc-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/sean-omalley-is-shocked-by-zabit-majomedsharipovs-statement-that-he-refused-a-fight-opportunity-for-the-ufc-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean O&#8217;Malley is shocked by Zabit Majomedsharipov&#8217;s statement that he refused a fight opportunity for the #UFC title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sean O&#8217;Malley expressed his amazement at Zabit Magomedsharipov&#8217;s statement that he turned down a fighting opportunity for the #UFC title, explaining that Zabit was a rising star before his sudden retirement, and giving him opportunities like this in a situation in which he was a prize any fighter would wish for.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_80684\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1_cCMj397T0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former ACB featherweight champion, Magomedsharipov joined the UFC in 2017 and quickly earned four victories with three of those wins coming via submission. The 32-year-old took a significant\u00a0step up in competition\u00a0in 2019 to face longtime UFC veteran Jeremy Stephens at UFC 235, but the Russian passed that test by winning a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean O&#8217;Malley expressed his amazement at Zabit Magomedsharipov&#8217;s statement that he turned down a fighting opportunity for the #UFC title, explaining that Zabit was a rising star before his sudden retirement, and giving him opportunities like this in a situation in which he was a prize any fighter would wish for. A former ACB featherweight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-ufc-news","9":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}