{"id":3465,"date":"2024-03-24T06:21:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2024-03-24T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T06:39:08","slug":"moroccan-fighter-youssef-zalal-defeats-american-billy-quarantillo-by-submission-in-the-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/moroccan-fighter-youssef-zalal-defeats-american-billy-quarantillo-by-submission-in-the-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan fighter Youssef Zalal defeats American Billy Quarantillo by submission in the second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moroccan fighter Youssef Zalal achieved a well-deserved victory over American Billy Quarantillo by submission in the second round of their featherweight fight on the main card of the UFC FIGHT NIGHT evening held in Las Vegas, marking a strong and well-deserved comeback in the UFC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"rtl\">\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udde6 New presentation for this evening with Moroccan Youssef Dhalal winning for his return in the second round <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCVegas89?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCVegas89<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udde6\u062a\u0642\u062f\u064a\u0645 \u062c\u062f\u064a\u062f \u0644\u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u0627\u0621 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u063a\u0631\u0628\u064a \u064a\u0648\u0633\u0641 \u0638\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u064a\u0641\u0648\u0632 \u0644\u0639\u0648\u062f\u062a\u0647 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0648\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062b\u0627\u0646\u064a\u0629#UFCVegas89 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h3WEIhTVbP\">pic.twitter.com\/h3WEIhTVbP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; mmamag.ma (@jamalsoussi10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamalsoussi10\/status\/1771766208150253957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2024<\/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;\">Zalal (14-5-1 MMA, 4-3-1 UFC) saw his first run with the company end in August 2022 on a four-fight winless skid. He worked his way back, then thrived with the new opportunity when he threatened Quarantillo repeatedly with submissions until he finally locked in a rear-naked choke that got the tap at the 1:50 mark of Round 2 at the UFC Apex.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_62060\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6SrIKTaaV1U?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;\">Zalal, 27, was overcome with joy in the aftermath of becoming the first person to submit Quarantillo in MMA competition. He has big plans moving forward, and intends to live up to the career goals he set for himself from the outset.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019m really too good,\u201d Zalal said in his post-fight interview with Paul Felder. \u201cThe first time I was in the UFC, I told you guys I would be a world champion and will be a world champion. I just didn\u2019t have the confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moroccan fighter Youssef Zalal achieved a well-deserved victory over American Billy Quarantillo by submission in the second round of their featherweight fight on the main card of the UFC FIGHT NIGHT evening held in Las Vegas, marking a strong and well-deserved comeback in the UFC. \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udde6 New presentation for this evening with Moroccan Youssef Dhalal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,86,21,91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-mma-video","9":"category-ufc-news","10":"category-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465"}],"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=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}