{"id":5117,"date":"2023-10-27T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/5117\/mma-star-jorge-masvidal-eyes\/"},"modified":"2023-10-27T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T09:00:47","slug":"mma-star-jorge-masvidal-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=5117","title":{"rendered":"MMA star Jorge Masvidal eyes boxing match &#8216;early next year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MMA star Jorge Masvidal eyes boxing match &#8216;early next year&#8217;\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Marc Raimondi, ESPN editor<span class=\"timestamp \">October 26, 2023, 9:45 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jorge Masvidal says he will return to fighting relatively soon.<\/p>\n<p>The former UFC BMF champion and one of MMA&#8217;s biggest stars of recent years told ESPN he will fight in a boxing match &#8220;early next year.&#8221;  No opponent has yet been designated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo names yet, but I can tell you it\u2019s early next year and someone is going to be killed,\u201d Masvidal said in an interview Thursday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/MMA-star-Jorge-Masvidal-eyes-boxing-match-early-next-year.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/MMA-star-Jorge-Masvidal-eyes-boxing-match-early-next-year.png&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.png\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Masvidal retired from the UFC in April after falling to Gilbert Burns at UFC 287 in Masvidal&#8217;s hometown of Miami.  Since then, he has focused on running three combat sports organizations that he promotes, including Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA.  This promotion&#8217;s next event will take place on November 10, a heavyweight title main event between two UFC veterans \u2013 Roy Nelson and Alan Belcher.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC still has Masvidal under contract, so it&#8217;s unclear what the deal would be regarding him competing in boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Masvidal, 38, took umbrage with this month&#8217;s boxing event that featured Logan Paul vs. Dillon Danis and KSI vs. Tommy Fury.  Masvidal said the spectacle was a \u201cdisrespect to boxing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Logan didn&#8217;t hit [Danis] dead,&#8221; Masvidal said. &#8220;I really wanted Logan to punch him to death.  So I&#8217;m a little angry with Logan.  I hope he gives me my money back, you know?  Not that I paid for it, but still.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If and when he steps into the ring, Masvidal would be the latest former UFC star to transition to boxing, a list that includes Anderson Silva, Nate Diaz, Jose Aldo and Anthony Pettis.  Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou will box lineal heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA star Jorge Masvidal eyes boxing match &#8216;early next year&#8217;\u060c Marc Raimondi, ESPN editorOctober 26, 2023, 9:45 p.m. Jorge Masvidal says he will return to fighting relatively soon. The former UFC BMF champion and one of MMA&#8217;s biggest stars of recent years told ESPN he will fight in a boxing match &#8220;early next year.&#8221; No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1062,1258,2679,1457,3808,1203,3807,1299,540],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-boxing","tag-early","tag-eyes","tag-jorge","tag-masvidal","tag-match","tag-mma","tag-star","tag-year"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5119,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}