{"id":2897,"date":"2009-03-06T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2009-03-03T20:19:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T00:19:47","slug":"mir-vs-lesnar-hughes-vs-sera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2897","title":{"rendered":"Mir vs Lesnar &#038; Hughes vs Sera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z030609mir_lesnar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Tuesday<\/strong> it was announced that on <strong>May 23rd<\/strong>, <strong>UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar <\/strong>(3-1) will square off against <strong>UFC interim heavyweight champion Frank Mir<\/strong> (12-3 MMA).\u00a0 This unification bout will be their second meeting.\u00a0 In the first, <strong>Mir <\/strong>won <strong>via tapout<\/strong> from a <strong>leg bar<\/strong> in the <strong>first round<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The card will also feature the <strong>highly anticipated<\/strong> bout between <strong>Matt Hughes<\/strong> and <strong>Matt Sera<\/strong>.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no love lost between these two and you can bet that trash talk will lead up to sparks in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I&#8217;d have to say that the <strong>smart money<\/strong> is on <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> in the<strong> title bout<\/strong> and <strong>Hughes<\/strong> in the battle of the Matts.\u00a0 I have to admit that I&#8217;ll probably be pulling for the underdogs when <strong>May 23rd<\/strong> rolls around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday it was announced that on May 23rd, UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar (3-1) will square off against UFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}