{"id":646583,"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.com\/index\/646583","title":{"rendered":"Strikeforce interview: Veteran Riggs somehow in spoiler role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\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":2530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2IcL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}