{"id":1653,"date":"2019-09-19T20:39:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T20:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2019-09-19T20:53:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T20:53:34","slug":"ufc-fight-night-rodriguez-vs-stephens-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/ufc-fight-night-rodriguez-vs-stephens-mexico-city\/ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fight Night Rodriguez Vs Stephens: Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>UFC Fight Night From Mexico City September 21, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_1654\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1654\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/Mexico-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"UFC mexico\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/Mexico-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/Mexico-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/Mexico-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/Mexico.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UFC Returns to Mexico City this weekend<br \/>Julio Aldana\/Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The UFC returns to Mexico City this weekend with a much-anticipated matchup between Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens at Lightweight headlining the event.\u00a0 This will be the first time Rodriguez has been back in the Octagon since he scored a last-second knock out victory over Chan Sung Jung at the end of last year. Stephens meanwhile has found himself on a two-fight losing streak but is hoping that his previously demonstrated one-punch knockout power will put in back in the win column after this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The co-main event features an interesting battle between former strawweight champion Carla Esparza and the rapidly rising Alexa Grasso.\u00a0 The two are ranked eight and nine respectively in the division, so it should be a close-run thing, and give the victor a chance of moving into title challenger contention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Rest of Fight Card<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Moreno Vs Askar Askarov\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Flyweight<\/p>\n<p>Irene Aldana Vs Vanessa Melo \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bantamweight<\/p>\n<p>Martin Bravo Vs Steven Peterson\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Featherweight<\/p>\n<p>Jose Quinonez Vs Carlos Huachin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bantamweight<\/p>\n<p>Marco Polo Reyes Vs Kyle Nelson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Featherweight<\/p>\n<p>Ariane Carnelossi Vs Angela Hill\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Strawweight<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Pettis Vs Alex Perez\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Flyweight<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius Moreira Vs Paul Craig\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Light Heavyweight<\/p>\n<p>Sijara Eubanks Vs Bethe Correia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bantamweight<\/p>\n<p>Claudio Puelles Vs Marco Mariano\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lightweight<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Fight Night From Mexico City September 21, 2019 The UFC returns to Mexico City this weekend with a much-anticipated matchup between Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens at Lightweight headlining the event.\u00a0 This will be the first time Rodriguez has been back in the Octagon since he scored a last-second knock out victory over Chan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}