{"id":8964,"date":"2022-09-07T00:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T00:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/09\/07\/marc-diakiese-ufc-mma-star-on-his-fighting-journey\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T00:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T00:26:03","slug":"marc-diakiese-ufc-mma-star-on-his-fighting-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=8964","title":{"rendered":"Marc Diakiese: UFC MMA star on his fighting journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A mixed martial arts fighter has spoken of his journey to the top of the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Marc Diakiese fights in the UFC and has featured on cards across the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The 29-year-old, nicknamed Bonecrusher, grew up in South Yorkshire, after leaving the Democratic Republic of Congo as a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He regards the &#8220;mad town&#8221; of Doncaster as his home and aims to inspire young people there as well as back in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The fighter said: &#8220;I&#8217;m just grateful to have what I have and enjoy life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed and edited by Jacob Tomlinson and Oli Constable.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-south-yorkshire-62810275?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A mixed martial arts fighter has spoken of his journey to the top of the sport. Marc Diakiese fights in the UFC and has featured on cards across the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}