{"id":40433,"date":"2026-03-26T03:44:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/paul-hughes-irish-competitor-pulls-out-of-belfast-fight-against-jay-jay-wilson-with-knee-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:44:42","slug":"paul-hughes-irish-competitor-pulls-out-of-belfast-fight-against-jay-jay-wilson-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/paul-hughes-irish-competitor-pulls-out-of-belfast-fight-against-jay-jay-wilson-with-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hughes: Irish competitor pulls out of Belfast fight against Jay-Jay Wilson with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Paul Hughes has withdrawn from next month&#8217;s headline fight against Jay-Jay Wilson because of a knee injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His lightweight contest with Wilson was set to top the bill in the Professional Fighters League&#8217;s second Belfast show on 16 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hughes, who will have knee surgery, said on Wednesday that he was &#8220;absolutely crushed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Donegal&#8217;s Darragh Kelly will step in as his replacement at the SSE Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kelly has won all nine of his professional bouts and now looks forward to the biggest fight of his career against the New Zealander.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have picked up a knee injury in preparations, and having explored every option, it just isn&#8217;t possible for me to carry on training,&#8221; Hughes said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve consulted with my team alongside top professionals, and unfortunately, this injury cannot be pushed through anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/articles\/cp8dnrx56x4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Hughes has withdrawn from next month&#8217;s headline fight against Jay-Jay Wilson because of a knee injury. His lightweight contest with Wilson was set to top the bill in the Professional Fighters League&#8217;s second Belfast show on 16 April. Hughes, who will have knee surgery, said on Wednesday that he was &#8220;absolutely crushed&#8221;. Donegal&#8217;s Darragh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40435,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40433\/revisions\/40435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}