{"id":1689,"date":"2019-10-02T18:16:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T18:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2019-10-02T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T18:17:33","slug":"ufc-243-whittaker-vs-adesanya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/ufc-243-whittaker-vs-adesanya\/ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 243 \u2013 Whittaker vs Adesanya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what is sure to be an action-packed main event, Middleweight champion faces off against interim champion Israel Adesanya, when the UFC returns to Australia this coming weekend.\u00a0 Add to the mix the Aussie\/Kiwi rivalry that is sure to come out, this is set to be one of the most anticipated fights of the year, with advance ticket sales already making this the biggest combat sports event ever in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The co-main event at 155lbs, features Al Iaquinta up against Dan Hooker.\u00a0 This should prove to be a good test for Kiwi Hooker, as he looks to move into the top ten rankings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A proposed bout between Holly Holm and Raquel Pennington had to be scrapped this week due to Holm suffering a tendon injury that affected her hamstring<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Rest of Fight Card<\/h2>\n<p>155 lbs.: Dan Hooker vs. Al Iaquinta<br \/>\n265 lbs.: Sergey Spivak vs. Tai Tuivasa<br \/>\n170 lbs.: Luke Jumeau vs. Dhiego Lima<br \/>\n265 lbs.: Yorgan De Castro vs. Justin Tafa<\/p>\n<p>170 lbs.: Rostem Akman vs. Jake Matthews<br \/>\n170 lbs.: Maki Pitolo vs. Callan Potter<br \/>\n145 lbs.: Megan Anderson vs. Zarah Fairn dos Santos<br \/>\n155 lbs.: Jamie Mullarkey vs. Brad Riddell<\/p>\n<p>115 lbs.: Nadia Kassem vs. Ji Yeon Kim<br \/>\n135 lbs.: Bruno Silva vs. Khalid Taha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is sure to be an action-packed main event, Middleweight champion faces off against interim champion Israel Adesanya, when the UFC returns to Australia this coming weekend.\u00a0 Add to the mix the Aussie\/Kiwi rivalry that is sure to come out, this is set to be one of the most anticipated fights of the year,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"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-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufc","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","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=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}