{"id":24132,"date":"2026-08-03T18:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=24132"},"modified":"2026-08-03T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:01:20","slug":"jiri-claims-ufc-wants-him-to-fight-paulo-costa-in-october-clueless-eraser-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=24132","title":{"rendered":"Jiri claims UFC wants him to fight Paulo Costa in October, clueless \u2018Eraser\u2019 responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There\u2019s a battle brewing between Top 5 light heavyweight contenders Jiri Prochazka and Paulo Costa, according to \u201cBJP,\u201d who claims UFC recently offered him a late-fall showdown against the former middleweight title challenger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThis is just a quick message for Paulo Costa,\u201d Prochazka said on Instagram. \u201cDon\u2019t tag me, don\u2019t mention me in your posts because you have an offer from UFC to fight me in October or November. And if you don\u2019t want to fight me, don\u2019t mention me, don\u2019t speak about me. This is it. I\u2019m waiting for the contract for this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cEVERYONE wants to fight me because I\u2019m THE GUY in this boring division,\u201d Costa replied on X. \u201cBut the TRUTH is: so far, nobody has mentioned your name to me. So go back to doing that weird thing of yours \u2014 whatever the hell it is you\u2019re doing, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Nothing is official at this time, but this seems like the right fight to make.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/462225\/jiri-claims-ufc-wants-him-fight-paulo-costa-october-clueless-eraser-responds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a battle brewing between Top 5 light heavyweight contenders Jiri Prochazka and Paulo Costa, according to \u201cBJP,\u201d who claims UFC recently offered him a late-fall showdown against the former middleweight title challenger. \u201cThis is just a quick message for Paulo Costa,\u201d Prochazka said on Instagram. \u201cDon\u2019t tag me, don\u2019t mention me in your posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[287,5201,188,10903,248,2820,9608,1508,77,42],"class_list":["post-24132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-claims","tag-clueless","tag-costa","tag-eraser","tag-fight","tag-jiri","tag-october","tag-paulo","tag-responds","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}