{"id":32166,"date":"2026-10-11T12:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=32166"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:29:17","slug":"loopy-godinez-hospitalized-after-ufc-vegas-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=32166","title":{"rendered":"Loopy Godinez hospitalized after UFC Vegas 122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Better to be safe than sorry &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Following UFC Vegas 122 last night (Sat., Oct. 10, 2026) inside Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, promotion officials confirmed to MMAmania.com that one fighter was transported to a local \u201cSin City\u201d hospital for precautionary evaluation after sustaining damage in her bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That fighter was Strawweight veteran <strong>Loopy Godinez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Godinez (15-6) was transported for precautionary CT scans of her head and face following her controversial unanimous decision victory over <strong>Ketlen Souza<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 33-year-old escaped \u201cSin City\u201d with the official win, but very few people agreed with the judges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Beyond fans immediately labeling the result a highway robbery, all but one media outlet had Souza winning the fight. The Brazilian landed the more damaging strikes and did enough to clearly claim the opening two rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Nevertheless, all three cageside judges awarded the contest to Godinez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The disputed victory returned Godinez to the win column following her second-round submission loss to former title challenger <strong>Tatiana Suarez<\/strong> (watch highlights), which snapped her two-fight winning streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">At the time of publication, the results of Godinez\u2019s scans had not been publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It is normal for UFC to transport fighters to the hospital for precautionary reasons, especially after fighters are involved in damaging three-round battles, suffer nasty knockouts, or sustain injuries that need additional evaluation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Stick with MMAmania.com for any further health-related updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><strong>For more UFC Vegas 122 fight card results, coverage, and highlights click HERE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/478331\/one-fighter-transported-to-the-hospital-following-violent-ufc-vegas-122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better to be safe than sorry &#8230; Following UFC Vegas 122 last night (Sat., Oct. 10, 2026) inside Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, promotion officials confirmed to MMAmania.com that one fighter was transported to a local \u201cSin City\u201d hospital for precautionary evaluation after sustaining damage in her bout. That fighter was Strawweight veteran Loopy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2390,2231,2389,42,269],"class_list":["post-32166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-analysis","tag-godinez","tag-hospitalized","tag-loopy","tag-ufc","tag-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32166","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=32166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}