{"id":43402,"date":"2026-07-11T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/tonight-gjoni-palokaj-meets-the-chechen-machaev\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:01:02","slug":"tonight-gjoni-palokaj-meets-the-chechen-machaev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/tonight-gjoni-palokaj-meets-the-chechen-machaev\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight, Gjoni Palokaj meets the Chechen Machaev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.png\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>There are problems for the Chechen, because of the weight.<\/p>\n<p>Mago Machaev has not managed to make the weight. At the time of the official measurement, he was 1.2 kg over the limit. Meanwhile, Gjoni Palokaj made the weight according to the rules.<\/p>\n<p>After the measurement, Machaevi was given 2 hours of additional time to remove 1.2 kg, but he did not succeed. He managed to lose only 100 grams, so he remained 1.1 kg over the allowed weight.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the organization asked Gjon and his trainer, David Palokaj, if they wanted the match to take place. Trainer David Palokaj agreed and said, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because he didn&#8217;t make weight according to the rules, the Octagon stripped Machaev of the championship belt.<\/p>\n<p>This means that, even if Machaev wins the match, he cannot get the championship belt back. Whereas, if John wins, he will be declared champion and receive the belt.<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and display ads (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are problems for the Chechen, because of the weight. Mago Machaev has not managed to make the weight. At the time of the official measurement, he was 1.2 kg over the limit. Meanwhile, Gjoni Palokaj made the weight according to the rules. After the measurement, Machaevi was given 2 hours of additional time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"views":6,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43404,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43402\/revisions\/43404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}