{"id":215430,"date":"2025-10-15T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215430\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:27:07","slug":"when-is-ilia-topuria-fighting-ufcs-paramount-card-a-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215430\/","title":{"rendered":"When is Ilia Topuria fighting? UFC\u2019s Paramount+ card \u2018a possibility\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that UFC 323 has its championship main and co-main events (see them here<\/a>), it\u2019s safe to assume that any UFC titleholder not already booked for 2025 will not be returning until 2026 \u2014 which just so happens to mark the debut of the promotion\u2019s new streaming deal with Paramount+ and CBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMatchmaking was today, and we started working on the first Paramount card today,\u201d White told reporters at the \u201cContender Series\u201d media scrum<\/a> on Tuesday night. \u201cWe\u2019re always going to try to put on the best cards that we can. We\u2019ve had a great relationship with ESPN, and we were talking earlier, everybody is already starting to feel it. They\u2019ve been great to us, and they\u2019ve been great to the sport. We want to put on a badass last card for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

No fights have been confirmed just yet; however, White said the inclusion of UFC lightweight champion, Ilia Topuria, is \u201ca possibility\u201d for the Paramount+ main event. That said, matchmakers still have to figure out \u201dEl Matador\u2019s\u201d next opponent, which could be either Paddy Pimblett or Justin Gaethje<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that UFC 323 has its championship main and co-main events (see them here), it\u2019s safe to assume…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,23416,1647],"class_list":["post-215430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-programming","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215430","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=215430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}