{"id":244,"date":"2022-09-24T17:47:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T16:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=244"},"modified":"2022-09-24T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T20:56:13","slug":"yoel-romero-barks-mocking-adesanya-after-ko-win-over-manhoef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/yoel-romero-barks-mocking-adesanya-after-ko-win-over-manhoef\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoel Romero barks mocking Adesanya after KO win over Manhoef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yoel Romero was featured in a Bellator 285 main event agaist Melvin Manhoef. The age of these two main event competitors adds upto staggering 91 \u2013 but Romero still delivered.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udee1 The Soldier of God has spoken.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YoelRomeroMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YoelRomeroMMA<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnnyEblen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnnyEblen<\/a>? \ud83e\udd14<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bellator285?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bellator285<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3BEVyGCcpI\">pic.twitter.com\/3BEVyGCcpI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BellatorMMA (@BellatorMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BellatorMMA\/status\/1573751649608179713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Irish crowd was fully on board with Romero and was cheering from him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Romero would go on to lay on punishment from half guard until referee stopped the action and proclaim:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am the best 185lb\u2019er in the world!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Soldier of Dawg? \ud83e\udee1<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s certainly one way to celebrate the win, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YoelRomeroMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YoelRomeroMMA<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bellator285?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bellator285<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O5D0q8rAcU\">pic.twitter.com\/O5D0q8rAcU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BellatorMMA (@BellatorMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BellatorMMA\/status\/1573440031402131456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Romero stole the show delivering a great performance. Going into the event we knew that Manhoef was done with the sport and this would be his retirement bout. While he\u2019s not a household name right now he holds knock out victories over MMA greats Kazushi Sakuraba and Mark Hunt.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big takedown in Round 3 for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YoelRomeroMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YoelRomeroMMA<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bellator285?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bellator285<\/a> | \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SHOsports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SHOSports<\/a> | \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcthree?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCThree<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ObALW31h6p\">pic.twitter.com\/ObALW31h6p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BellatorMMA (@BellatorMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BellatorMMA\/status\/1573436229609312261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Romero is known for his explosive bursts that have stunned his opponents into incredibly timid performances. For those unaware, he comes from a background of competing in Olympic wrestling and had only made his MMA debut at 36. For the sake of comparison, Jose Aldo is retiring at 36.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddfa\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddfc \ud835\udde6\ud835\udde0\ud835\uddd4\ud835\udde6\ud835\udddb! \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Devastating ground and pound from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YoelRomeroMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YoelRomeroMMA<\/a> to score a huge win in Dublin! \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bellator285?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bellator285<\/a> | \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SHOsports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SHOSports<\/a> | \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcthree?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCThree<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ATGkohqPNP\">pic.twitter.com\/ATGkohqPNP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BellatorMMA (@BellatorMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BellatorMMA\/status\/1573437182483877891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoel Romero was featured in a Bellator 285 main event agaist Melvin Manhoef. The age of these two main event competitors adds upto staggering 91 \u2013 but Romero still delivered. \ud83e\udee1 The Soldier of God has spoken.@YoelRomeroMMA vs. @JohnnyEblen? \ud83e\udd14#Bellator285 pic.twitter.com\/3BEVyGCcpI &mdash; BellatorMMA (@BellatorMMA) September 24, 2022 The Irish crowd was fully on board with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-billator"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}