{"id":148222,"date":"2025-09-16T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148222\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:50:07","slug":"ufc-322-adds-two-middleweight-bouts-including-bo-nickals-return-after-first-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148222\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 322 adds two middleweight bouts, including Bo Nickal’s return after first loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lineup continues to grow for UFC 322<\/a> on Nov. 15, which marks the promotion’s annual stop in New York City.<\/p>\n

The event from Madison Square Garden (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+) is headlined by two championship fights. Tuesday, UFC officials formally announced a pair of new matchups in the middleweight division for “The Big Apple.”<\/p>\n

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Top MMA prospect Bo Nickal (7-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) will make his return to the octagon after suffering his first defeat<\/a> to Reinier de Ridder in May when he takes on Rodolfo Vieira (11-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC), who is riding high off a unanimous decision over Tresean Gore in August.<\/p>\n

In other action, Roman Kopylov (14-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC) looks to shake off a loss<\/a> to Paulo Costa in July against fellow knockout specialist Gregory Rodrigues (17-6 MMA, 8-3 UFC), who viciously finished Jack Hermansson in a Knockout of the Year contender<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n

The latest UFC 322 lineup now includes:<\/p>\n

Jack Della Maddalena vs. Islam Makhachev \u2013\u00a0for welterweight title<\/p>\n

Valentina Shevchenko vs. Zhang Weili \u2013 for women’s flyweight title<\/p>\n

Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates<\/p>\n

Erin Blanchfield vs. Tracy Cortez<\/p>\n

Eric McConico vs. Baisangur Susurkaev<\/p>\n

Fatima Kline vs. Angela Hill<\/p>\n

Kyle Daukaus vs. Gerald Meerschaert<\/p>\n

Bo Nickal vs. Rodolfo Vieira<\/p>\n

Roman Kopylov vs. Gregory Rodrigues<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC 322 adds two middleweight bouts, including Bo Nickal’s return<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lineup continues to grow for UFC 322 on Nov. 15, which marks the promotion’s annual stop in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,17832,794,786,99961,45376,785,6401,19854,8945,85,99962,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-148222","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-bo-nickal","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-gregory-rodrigues","14":"tag-madison-square-garden","15":"tag-mma","16":"tag-paulo-costa","17":"tag-rodolfo-vieira","18":"tag-roman-kopylov","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-tresean-gore","21":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148222","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=148222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}