{"id":13913,"date":"2014-06-06T15:11:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T07:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13913"},"modified":"2014-06-06T15:11:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T07:11:46","slug":"heavyweight-smealinho-rama-signs-with-world-series-of-fighting-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/06\/heavyweight-smealinho-rama-signs-with-world-series-of-fighting-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavyweight Smealinho Rama signs with World Series of Fighting Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13914\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smealinho-Rama-Mike-Hackert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smealinho-Rama-Mike-Hackert.jpg\" alt=\"Smealinho Rama. Photo from topmmanews.com.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smealinho-Rama-Mike-Hackert.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smealinho-Rama-Mike-Hackert-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smealinho Rama. Photo from topmmanews.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Heavyweight Smealinho (The Prince) Rama has signed with the World Series of Fighting Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old MMA fighter of Albanian-Greek descent, who now makes his home in Calgary, stopped UFC veteran Tim Hague in the first round last month. He won a unanimous decision over Steve Mocco on a WSOF Canada card in Edmonton in February.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Rama suffered his lone loss in nine fights in a KO via a head kick against Anthony Hamilton at MFC 38 last October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been very impressed watching Rama\u2019s career develop,\u201d WSOF Canada executive Darren Owen said in a statement. \u201cHe gets better every fight and he\u2019s always looking to finish whether he is looking for the knockout or if it hits on his feet or a submission on the ground he\u2019s looking for submissions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a rare combination for a heavyweight but very fan friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The World Series of Fighting Canada\u2019s next card is Saturday in Edmonton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavyweight Smealinho (The Prince) Rama has signed with the World Series of Fighting Canada. The 22-year-old MMA fighter of Albanian-Greek &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}