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\nKyoji Horiguchi’s title hopes took a hit on Saturday. |
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Kyoji The American Top Team product suffered a third-round technical Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Horiguchi, who defeated Kape in Rizin Fighting Federation in 2017, \u201cThank you all for your support,\u201d Horiguchi wrote on X (via \u7686\u3055\u3093\u5fdc\u63f4\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002 \u30b1\u30a4\u30d7\u9078\u624b\u5f37\u304b\u3063\u305f\u3002 \u3053\u308c\u3060\u304b\u3089\u683c\u95d8\u6280\u306f\u8f9e\u3081\u3089\u308c\u306a\u3044\u3088\u306d\u3002 \u2014 \u5800\u53e3\u606d\u53f8 Kyoji <\/center><\/p>\n Horiguchi had been unbeaten in his last eight professional outings Kyoji Horiguchi’s title hopes took a hit on Saturday. | Getty\/UFC Kyoji Horiguchi\u2019s hopes at making a late career run at UFC flyweight gold hit a serious speed bump on Saturday night. The American Top Team product suffered a third-round technical knockout loss to Manel Kape in the UFC Fight Night 279 headliner at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38906","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\/38906","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=38906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHoriguchi<\/a>\u2019s hopes at making a late career run at
\nUFC<\/a> flyweight gold hit a serious speed bump on Saturday
\nnight.<\/p>\n
\nknockout loss to Manel Kape<\/a>
\nin the
\nUFC Fight Night 279<\/a> headliner at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on
\nSaturday night. Things were going well for Horiguchi in the first
\ntwo frames before Kape flashed his formidable power during the
\ndecisive sequence 2:42 into the third stanza.<\/p>\nThe Dream Doesn’t Die<\/h2>\n
\ninitially challenged for the UFC flyweight title in April 2015,
\nwhen he suffered a fifth-round submission loss to Demetrious
\nJohnson<\/a>. The 35-year-old reflected on the loss in a brief
\nstatement on social media.<\/p>\n
\nTranslate). \u201cI got spectacularly knocked out. I\u2019m truly sorry. Kape
\nwas strong. \u201cThank you! This is why I can\u2019t quit martial arts. I\u2019ll
\nretrain and be back in no time! I\u2019m not giving up on my dream
\nyet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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\nHoriguchi<\/a> (@kyoji1012)
\nJune 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nprior to facing Kape. He kicked off his second UFC tenure with
\nback-to-back triumphs over Tagir
\nUlanbekov<\/a> and Amir Albazi<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"