{"id":39060,"date":"2026-06-29T17:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Teammate-claims-Yair-Rodriguez-is-moving-up-to-lightweight-201686"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:17:33","slug":"teammate-claims-yair-rodriguez-is-moving-up-to-lightweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/teammate-claims-yair-rodriguez-is-moving-up-to-lightweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Teammate claims Yair Rodriguez is moving up to lightweight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Yair
\nRodriguez<\/a> is apparently moving up to lightweight. <\/p>\n

Rodriguez (20-5) and Belal
\nMuhammad<\/a> are teammates at Valle Flow Striking in Bensenville,
\nIllinois. Muhammad recently claimed that \u201cEl Pantera\u201d is moving up
\nto lightweight from featherweight. <\/p>\n

Rafael
\nFiziev<\/a> knocked out Manuel
\nTorres<\/a> via a highlight-reel spinning back kick in front of his
\nhome fans at UFC Baku last weekend. Muhammad subsequently suggested
\na matchup between Fiziev and Rodriguez. When a fan noted that
\nRodriguez is a featherweight, Muhammad
\nSaid<\/a> that the Mexican is moving up to lightweight. Muhammad
\nalso revealed that Rodriguez underwent surgery on his wrist after
\nhis last win over Patricio
\nFreire<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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\n

Fizev and Yair would be fire<\/p>\n

\u2014 Belal
\nMuhammad<\/a> (@bullyb170)
\nJune 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n
\u2019<\/p>\n

Shifting Gears and Injury Recovery<\/h2>\n

Rodriguez has had an illustrious career at featherweight, only
\nlosing to top talents like Frankie
\nEdgar<\/a>, Max
\nHolloway<\/a>, Alexander
\nVolkanovski<\/a> and Brian
\nOrtega<\/a>. Rodriguez won the interim featherweight title against
\nJosh
\nEmmett<\/a> in 2023 but came up short in the bid for the undisputed
\ntitle against Volkanovski. 

<\/p>\n
\n

Nah Yair is moving up<\/p>\n

\u2014 Belal
\nMuhammad<\/a> (@bullyb170)
\nJune 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n

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\n

He had surgery on his wrist after the pitbul
\nfight<\/p>\n

\u2014 Belal
\nMuhammad<\/a> (@bullyb170)
\nJune 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Yair Rodriguez is apparently moving up to lightweight.  Rodriguez (20-5) and Belal Muhammad are teammates at Valle Flow Striking in Bensenville, Illinois. Muhammad recently claimed that \u201cEl Pantera\u201d is moving up to lightweight from featherweight.  Rafael Fiziev knocked out Manuel Torres via a highlight-reel spinning back kick in front of his home fans at UFC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39060","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\/39060","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=39060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}