{"id":152694,"date":"2025-09-18T19:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152694\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:14:07","slug":"mario-bautista-predicts-title-shot-if-he-defeats-umar-nurmagomedov-at-ufc-321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152694\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Bautista predicts title shot if he defeats Umar Nurmagomedov at UFC 321"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Bautista believes a win over Umar Nurmagomedov would take him to the promised land.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista and Nurmagomedov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-announces-ufc-320-ufc-321-main-events\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will share the Octagon in a pivotal bantamweight clash<\/a> at UFC 321 on Oct. 25. Earlier that month, Merab Dvalishvili will put the UFC Bantamweight Championship at stake against Cory Sandhagen. Bautista vs. Nurmagomedov is a significant chance for either man to earn a crack at 135-pound gold.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/09\/17\/ufc-321-mario-bautista-title-shot-umar-nurmagomedov-win\/86203723007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MMA Junkie Radio<\/a>, Bautista said he feels confident that a win over Nurmagomedov would grant him the winner of Dvalishvili vs. Sandhagen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it has to. If you look at it, it\u2019s going to be nine straight wins,\u201d Bautista said. \u201cGetting this win, then my last three performances would be Aldo, Patchy, Umar. Nine-fight win streak. I don\u2019t know what else you could possibly do, and I think that\u2019s exactly what Merab had. I think Merab had a nine-fight win streak, and I think he really had to really fight for that title shot. Hopefully he sees that and gives me that same kind of grace, and we\u2019ll figure something out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bautista has beaten the likes of Jose Aldo and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/mario-bautista\/ufc-316-results-mario-bautista-defeats-patchy-mix-highlights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patchy Mix<\/a> to move one step closer to UFC gold. Nurmagomedov was undefeated prior to falling short in his bantamweight title fight against \u201cThe Machine\u201d back in January. While Nurmagomedov\u2019s grappling had been a key part of his success, he was outhustled by Dvalishvili in their title fight.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista believes he will be prepared for his opponent\u2019s grappling by the time fight night rolls along.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve fought some good grapplers: Ricky Simon, and probably a few other ones here and there. I\u2019ve got ready for wrestlers. I\u2019ve had those cams, but this is just a more high profile one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stick with BJPenn.com for the latest updates on both the UFC 320 and UFC 321 cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Bautista believes a win over Umar Nurmagomedov would take him to the promised land. Bautista and Nurmagomedov&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-152694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152694","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=152694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}