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\nCurtis Blaydes took a beating at UFC 327 | Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n
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Engaging in a \u201cFight of the Year\u201d candidate took its toll on The longtime heavyweight contender squared off against prospect Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hokit appeared to wobble Blaydes on more than one occasion, but As for Blaydes, he will likely be sidelined for quite some time as The 35-year-old Blaydes has lost three of his last five Octagon Curtis Blaydes took a beating at UFC 327 | Getty\/UFC Engaging in a \u201cFight of the Year\u201d candidate took its toll on Curtis Blaydes. The longtime heavyweight contender squared off against prospect Josh Hokit on the UFC 327 main card at the Kaseya Center in Miami on Saturday night. While both combatants boast wrestling backgrounds, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCurtis
\nBlaydes<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nJosh
\nHokit<\/a> on the UFC 327<\/a>
\nmain card at the Kaseya Center in Miami on Saturday night. While
\nboth combatants boast wrestling backgrounds, the bout turned into a
\nslugfest in which Blaydes (177) and Hokit (174) combined to land
\nthe most significant strikes in a three-round fight in UFC
\nheavyweight history.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cRazor\u201d was never dropped. However, Hokit got stronger as the fight
\nprogressed, ultimately earning a hard-fought unanimous decision
\nvictory.<\/p>\nThe Cost of Doing Business<\/h2>\n
\nhe recovers from the injuries suffered in the memorable contest.
\nBlaydes\u2019 management team at Vayner Sports revealed to MMAjunkie.com<\/a> that the fighter sustained a
\nfractured orbital and a fractured nose in the bout. Blaydes has
\nbeen released from a Miami hospital but a timetable for his
\nrecovery is currently unclear.<\/p>\n
\nappearances dating back to 2023. \u201cRazor\u201d has been a fixture in the
\nheavyweight Top 10 during his
\nUFC<\/a> tenure and owns notable victories over the likes of
\nMark
\nHunt<\/a>, Alistair
\nOvereem<\/a>, Junior dos
\nSantos<\/a>, Alexander
\nVolkov<\/a>, Jairzinho
\nRozenstruik<\/a>, Tom
\nAspinall<\/a> and Jailton
\nAlmeida<\/a>, to name a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"