{"id":172294,"date":"2021-12-12T01:24:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T02:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=172294"},"modified":"2021-12-12T12:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T12:59:25","slug":"aussie-beast-celebrates-brutal-ufc-win-with-a-shoey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=172294","title":{"rendered":"Aussie beast celebrates brutal UFC win with a shoey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#x27;s UFC beast Tai &quot;Bam Bam&quot; Tuivasa on Sunday did what he does best &#8211; knocked someone out, then celebrated with a &quot;shoey&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old &#8211; who&#x27;s proudly from western Sydney &#8211; ended Brazilian heavyweight Augusto Sakai in the second round of their three-round fight at UFC 269 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fourth straight win for Tuivasa and, just as he&#x27;s become known to do, celebrate the victory by jumping up onto the wall of the octagon, grabbing a shoe from someone in the crowd, pouring a beer into it and skolling it as the audience went wild.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/ashes-2021-josh-hazlewood-and-david-warner-potentially-injured-for-adelaide-test\/1d2de913-3972-4227-999c-422dfe8c8267\" title=\"Australia facing awkward injury clouds\"><strong>Australia facing awkward Ashes injury clouds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/ashes-2021-england-fined-for-slow-over-rate-travis-head-for-obscenities\/27c89d61-b129-407f-9025-28584df88185\" title=\"England slugged with fines after heavy loss\"><strong>England slugged with fines after heavy Ashes loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/formula-1-2021-abu-dhabi-grand-prix-qualifying-results-max-verstappen-lewis-hamilton\/2f267dc2-55ff-4d04-830f-2912032bfef6\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Verstappen snares crucial pole as Hamilton cops boos\"><strong>Verstappen snares crucial pole as Hamilton cops boos<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Las Vegas!&quot; he yelled at the top of his voice, earning the loudest cheer of the night so far.<\/p>\n<p>Once he settled down, Tuivasa was able to speak about the win.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Like I said in my past interviews, I feel like I&#x27;m getting better and better at this sport.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I hear my corner say &#x27;that left&#x27;s opening up&#x27;. I just had to stay on my edge and stalk him and hunt him down.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve said before I&#x27;m a banger from western Sydney, and I&#x27;ll bang on with anyone.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/georgekambosos\/status\/1469847091237163011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/georgekambosos\/status\/1469847091237163011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tam_Khan\/status\/1469851264284610560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tam_Khan\/status\/1469851264284610560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In July, Tuivasa scored the best win of his UFC career when he knocked out former NFL player Greg Hardy, sending his opponent to the floor after only 67 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>It was his third straight first-round knockout victory. His second-round win on Sunday ended that streak, but he&#x27;s certainly made a name for himself.<\/p>\n<p>This victory will propel Tuivasa inside the top 15 heavyweight fighters in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/campo37\/status\/1469847066255917057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/campo37\/status\/1469847066255917057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Australia&#x27;s UFC beast Tai &quot;Bam Bam&quot; Tuivasa on Sunday did what he does best &#8211; knocked someone out, then celebrated with a &quot;shoey&quot;. The 28-year-old <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=172294\" title=\"Aussie beast celebrates brutal UFC win with a shoey\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172296,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172294\/revisions\/172296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}