{"id":242724,"date":"2010-01-28T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-216326:1"},"modified":"2010-01-28T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:20:05","slug":"strikeforce-interview-veteran-riggs-somehow-in-spoiler-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242724","title":{"rendered":"Strikeforce interview: Veteran Riggs somehow in spoiler role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ngh0TzUg93I&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"never\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>The most tortured man in MMA matchmaking is Jay Hieron. The welterweight fighting out of fame Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas has long been regarded as a guy ready to break through into the top 10. But Hieron has caught bad break after bad break and missed out on getting that much needed elite fight. <\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s here in the form of Joe Riggs. Riggs, a veteran of 44 pro fights, has reached the pinnacle before losing a title shot against UFC welterweight champ Matt Hughes back at UFC 56. He&#8217;s also been in there with Kendall Grove, Joe Doerksen, Chris Lytle, Nick Diaz. Mike Swick, Diego Sanchez and Phil Baroni. The resume is impressive yet many internet fans\/media are giving Riggs almost no shot of defeating Hieron. The sportsbooks reflect that lack of confidence in Riggs, tabbing Hieron a minus-275 favorite.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most tortured man in MMA matchmaking is Jay Hieron. The welterweight fighting out of fame Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas has long been regarded as a guy ready to break through into the top 10. But Hieron has caught bad break after bad break and missed out on getting that much needed elite fight. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}