{"id":133996,"date":"2025-09-11T00:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133996\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:13:06","slug":"maycee-barber-returns-at-ufc-323-vs-karine-silva-after-seizure-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133996\/","title":{"rendered":"Maycee Barber returns at UFC 323 vs. Karine Silva after seizure scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 5-ranked<\/a> Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight contender Maycee Barber is set to return. \u201cThe Future\u201d has been booked to face Brazil\u2019s Karine Silva at UFC 323 on Dec. 6, 2025, the promotion\u2019s final pay-per-view (PPV) of the year, inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The matchup was revealed by Silva\u2019s gym, \u201cFighting Nerds,\u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DObw6p0D0Vk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, seven months later, she\u2019s cleared and ready to continue her six-fight win streak \u2014 but instead of moving up the ladder, she\u2019s taking a fight against an opponent ranked below her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For Barber, this fight might be less about rankings and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/30\/24440112\/heavy-maycee-barber-bout-cancelations-division-changes-all-part-embarrassing-ufc-vegas-107-weigh-ins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more about redemption<\/a>. After her near-nightmare in May, she gets a shot at putting the bad memory behind her \u2014 and reminding everyone why she\u2019s still one of the most dangerous young contenders at 125 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That opponent is Silva (19-5), who bounced back from her first Octagon defeat with a revenge win over Dione Barbosa at UFC 319 last month. The 31-year-old Brazilian is now 5-1 inside the promotion, with her lone loss coming by unanimous decision to Viviane Araujo at UFC 309. A victory over Barber would likely rocket her into the division\u2019s Top 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for UFC 323, no headliner has been announced just yet, but the card is already shaping up with Marvin Vettori vs. Brunno Ferreira and Brandon Moreno vs. Tatsuro Taira joining Barber vs. Silva.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 5-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight contender Maycee Barber is set to return. \u201cThe Future\u201d has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,61604,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-133996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-fight-announcements","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}