{"id":696658,"date":"2010-03-20T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-229171:1"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:15:43","slug":"ufc-on-versus-1-irvin-tries-to-rebound-from-injuries-and-drug-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/696658","title":{"rendered":"UFC on Versus 1: Irvin tries to rebound from injuries and drug issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>He&#8217;s been labeled by some as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagepotato.com\/james-irvin%E2%80%99s-self-awareness-refreshing-kind-sad\" >the most cursed fighter in UFC history<\/a>. James Irvin probably wouldn&#8217;t argue after dealing multiple freak injuries in and out of the Octagon. The injuries became the least of his worries when he got hooked on prescription pain killers. That&#8217;s a big problem. Those pain killers aren&#8217;t allowed by state commissions. Adding insult to injury, Irvin was suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, when he was nabbed after a 2008 loss to Anderson Silva. It all served as a wakeup call for Irvin, who quietly checked himself into rehab. <\/p>\n<p>Irvin says he clean now and the UFC obviously holds the banger in high regard. Attempting a return at middleweight, he&#8217;s been matched nicely against fellow slugger Alessio Sakara. Plus Irvin is on the televised portion of the card in Broomfield, Colorado. That&#8217;s pretty impressive considering Clay Guida, who just lost a fight that may have gotten him a title shot at lightweight, is on the non-televised portion of the card.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s been labeled by some as the most cursed fighter in UFC history. James Irvin probably wouldn&#8217;t argue after dealing multiple freak injuries in and out of the Octagon. The injuries became the least of his worries when he got hooked on prescription pain killers. That&#8217;s a big problem. Those pain killers aren&#8217;t allowed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-696658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Veq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696658","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=696658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}