{"id":3182,"date":"2010-01-15T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2010-01-13T23:10:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T04:10:27","slug":"2008-ncaa-champ-phil-davis-makes-ufc-debut-feb-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w3182\/2008-ncaa-champ-phil-davis-makes-ufc-debut-feb-6\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 NCAA Champ PHIL DAVIS Makes UFC Debut Feb 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Phil Davis<\/strong>, 2008 NCAA Division I 184-pound champ for  <strong>Penn State,<\/strong> will be competing at <strong>UFC 109:  Relentless<\/strong> at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on Saturday,  February 6.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, <a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-7334-College-Wrestling-Examiner%7Ey2009m12d16-2008-NCAA-champ-Phil-Davis-signs-with-UFC \"target=\"_blank\">who  signed with UFC just last month<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">, <\/span>will be facing former World Extreme Cagefighting champion <strong>Brian  Stann<\/strong>, who played football at the <strong>US Naval  Academy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A four-time NCAA All-American wrestler, Davis built a 116-20 collegiate  career with the Nittany Lions. The 25-year-old Harrisburg, Pennsylvania native  owns a 4-0 professional MMA record, having competed inside the Palace Fighting  Championship, Ultimate Warrior Challenge and Ultimate Cage Fighting Challenge  promotions. In Davis&#8217; most recent MMA event in June, he submitted <strong>David  Baggett <\/strong>with a rear-naked choke in 3:37.<\/p>\n<p><em>To read the rest of the story&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-7334-College-Wrestling-Examiner%7Ey2010m1d8-2009-NCAA-champ-Phil-Davis-to-make-UFC-debut-February-6 \"target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-7334-College-Wrestling-Examiner~y2010m1d8-2009-NCAA-champ-Phil-Davis-to-make-UFC-debut-February-6<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Davis, 2008 NCAA Division I 184-pound champ for Penn State, will be competing at UFC 109: Relentless at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on Saturday, February 6. Davis, who signed with UFC just last month, will be facing former World Extreme Cagefighting champion Brian Stann, who played football at the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[307,164,23,25,265,306,96],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling","category-mma","tag-brian-stann","tag-college-wrestling","tag-ncaa","tag-penn-state","tag-pennsylvania","tag-phil-davis","tag-ufc"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-Pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}