{"id":7704,"date":"2011-02-15T22:14:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T03:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2011-02-15T22:14:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T03:14:05","slug":"ufc-breaking-news-popular-lightweight-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=7704","title":{"rendered":"UFC Breaking News: Popular Lightweight Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=7704\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6582\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"ufc_header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ufc_header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Sean Farrell <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ultimate Fighter season 5 alumni and UFC lightweight Gabe Ruediger (17-7) has been released from the UFC following back-to-back losses to Joe Lauzon (19-6) and Paul Taylor (11-6-1). Ruediger was on a six fight win streak in multiple promotions before going 0-2 in the UFC organization. This release however has led to a recent UFC new hire as well. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dave &#8220;Pee-Wee&#8221; Herman (20-2) Herman is expected to make his debut inside the Octagon at UFC 131 in June against Rob Broughton. Herman was last seen fighting at World Victory Road Presents: Soul of Fight last December where he defeated Yoshihiro Nakao via unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>Herman is an imposing heavyweight standing 6&#8217;5 and weighing in at 241 pounds, while possessing very long limbs and excellent takedown defense only Mu Bae Choi (9-4) has defeated him cleanly by TKO stoppage in 2009. Sokoudjou&#8217;s (10-8) victory over Herman was DQ related from an illegal knee strike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=7308\">RSR is Now Hiring Boxing Writers (2 Slots Open)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Pre-Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sean Farrell Ultimate Fighter season 5 alumni and UFC lightweight Gabe Ruediger (17-7) has been released from the UFC following back-to-back losses to Joe Lauzon (19-6) and Paul Taylor (11-6-1). Ruediger was on a six fight win streak in multiple promotions before going 0-2 in the UFC organization. This release however has led to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[510,2653,2261,2652],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-mma","tag-released","tag-shocker","tag-terminated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}