{"id":14485,"date":"2025-07-22T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14485\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T22:40:07","slug":"edmen-shahbazyan-andre-muniz-agree-to-ufc-320-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14485\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmen Shahbazyan, Andre Muniz agree to UFC 320 fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Middleweight<\/a> veterans Edmen Shahbazyan<\/a> and Andre Muniz<\/a> are set to face off at the UFC\u2019s first pay-per-view card of October in Las Vegas, multiple people with knowledge of the booking told MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck and Damoon Martin.<\/p>\n

UFC 320 goes down Oct. 4 at the T-Mobile Arena, and the promotion has yet to reveal its headlining attraction.<\/p>\n

Shahbazyan (15-5) looks for his third straight victory in 2025 after stopping Dylan Budka<\/a> in just 95 seconds in February and following up with a decision over Andre Petroski<\/a> this past June.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old talent is finally on a winning streak after losing five of seven between 2020 and 2024. Prior to that, \u201cThe Golden Boy\u201d earned a UFC deal with a 40-second finish against Antonio Jones<\/a> at Dana White<\/a>\u2019s Contender Series, going on to win four in a row with three first-round stoppages in the UFC.<\/p>\n

Muniz (24-7), on the other hand, is in desperate need of a victory in the UFC after suffering a first-round knockout to Ikram Aliskerov<\/a> in April, dropping to 1-3 since 2023. The other setbacks came in matches with Paul Craig<\/a> and Brendan Allen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSergipano\u201d, a fellow DWCS signee, had an incredible start in the company with three submissions across five straight victories, including armbars over Ronaldo \u201cJacare\u201d Souza<\/a> and Eryk Anders<\/a>. Muniz\u2019s only victory since 2023 was a split decision over Jun Yong Park<\/a> in December of that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middleweight veterans Edmen Shahbazyan and Andre Muniz are set to face off at the UFC\u2019s first pay-per-view card…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[3603,15891,64,63,15889,1913,786,585,1347,785,15892,15890,85,319,787,1396],"class_list":["post-14485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-agree","tag-andre","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-edmen","tag-fight","tag-fighting","tag-front-page","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-muniz","tag-shahbazyan","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14485","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=14485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}