{"id":2278,"date":"2020-12-17T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2020-12-17T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:17:12","slug":"ufc-vegas-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/ufc-vegas-17\/ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Vegas 17 \u2013 Thompson Vs Neal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The onslaught of UFC events just keeps on coming \u2013 this weekend with a welterweight headline fight between Stephen \u201cWonderboy\u201d Thompson and Geoff Neal.\u00a0 This match up was originally slated as the co-main event, but was promoted to top of the card, when the initial headline event of Leon Edwards against Khamzat Chimaev was postponed due to Edwards testing positive to COVID 19.\u00a0 There have also been some other COVID related cancellations to the entire fight card, but with battles featuring Jose Aldo, Sijara Eubanks and Marlon Moraes there are still plenty of interesting battles<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the last event of 2020 \u2013 and what a year it has been! We\u2019ve got a lay-off of 4 weeks before we return in January with UFC Vegas 18, then the following week it is the return of Conor McGregor in the rematch with Dustin Poirier at UFC 257<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas one and all and see you in 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rest of Fight Card<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>135 lbs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jose Aldo vs. Marlon Vera<br \/>\n170 lbs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michel Pereira vs. Khaos Williams<br \/>\n135 lbs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marlon Moraes vs. Rob Font<br \/>\n265 lbs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Greg Hardy vs. Marcin Tybura<br \/>\n135 lbs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sijara Eubanks vs. Pannie Kianzad<br \/>\n185 lbs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dalcha Lungiambula vs. Karl Roberson<br \/>\n185 lbs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Deron Winn vs. Antonio Arroyo<br \/>\n135 lbs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Drako Rodriguez vs. Aiemann Zahabi<br \/>\n185 lbs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tafon Nchukwi vs. Jamie Pickett<br \/>\n125 lbs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cody Durden vs. Jimmy Flick<br \/>\n125 lbs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gillian Robertson vs. Taila Santos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Vegas 17 \u2013 Thompson Vs Neal &nbsp; The onslaught of UFC events just keeps on coming \u2013 this weekend with a welterweight headline fight between Stephen \u201cWonderboy\u201d Thompson and Geoff Neal.\u00a0 This match up was originally slated as the co-main event, but was promoted to top of the card, when the initial headline event&#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":[24,1642,1641,63],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufc","tag-mma","tag-neal-vegas","tag-thompson","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","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=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}