{"id":24434,"date":"2025-07-26T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24434\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T21:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:01:13","slug":"ufc-abu-dhabi-live-blog-petr-yan-vs-marcus-mcghee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24434\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Abu Dhabi live blog: Petr Yan vs. Marcus McGhee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"uwpTab\">This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fight-card\/1526\/ufc-abu-dhabi-whittaker-vs-de-ridder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Abu Dhabi<\/a> live blog for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/4437\/petr-yan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Petr Yan<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6252\/marcus-mcghee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus McGhee<\/a>, the co-main event bantamweight bout Saturday at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ReiUbk\">Currently No. 5 at 135 pounds in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2025\/7\/6\/24460561\/mma-divisional-rankings-which-dominant-ufc-champion-is-most-at-risk-of-losing-their-title\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting Global Rankings<\/a>, Yan (18-5) has bounced back from a three-fight slump in style with consecutive wins over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/4188\/deiveson-figueiredo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deiveson Figueiredo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/4294\/song-yadong\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Song Yadong<\/a>. The former bantamweight champion is well on his way to another title, with current titleholder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/4276\/merab-dvalishvili\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Merab Dvalishvili<\/a> having expressed interest in fighting Yan again.<\/p>\n<p id=\"279TsL\">McGhee (10-1) has emerged as a rising contender in the loaded bantamweight division. Despite a late start to his pro career, McGhee has impressed with eight knockout wins on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and a 4-0 UFC record. In his most recent outing, he outpointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/4628\/jonathan-martinez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Martinez<\/a> to move one step closer to the top 10 of the rankings.<\/p>\n<p id=\"b5YyMV\">Check out the UFC Abu Dhabi live blog for Petr Yan vs. Marcus McGhee below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the UFC Abu Dhabi live blog for Petr Yan vs. Marcus McGhee, the co-main event bantamweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[1930,64,63,7285,1931,786,585,1347,4125,11551,24138,785,24136,85,787,1396,2342,24137],"class_list":["post-24434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-abu","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blog","tag-dhabi","tag-fighting","tag-front-page","tag-latest-news","tag-live","tag-marcus","tag-mcghee","tag-mma","tag-petr","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-vs","tag-yan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434","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=24434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}