{"id":24775,"date":"2025-07-27T00:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24775\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T00:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:34:07","slug":"aaron-pico-receives-new-opponent-for-ufc-319-co-main-event-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24775\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Pico receives new opponent for UFC 319 co-main event slot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Pico will be competing in the co-headliner of next month\u2019s UFC 319 pay-per-view event in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dana-White-Aaron-Pico-1024x585.jpg\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dana White, Aaron Pico, UFC\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pico (13-4 MMA) was originally slated to make his highly anticipated Octagon debut against undefeated featherweight contender Movsar Evloev (19-0 MMA) in this afternoon\u2019s UFC Abu Dhabi co-main event. Unfortunately for fight fans, Evloev <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/movsar-evloev\/ufc-abu-dhabi-takes-a-hit-as-movsar-evloev-withdraws-from-highly-anticipated-bout-against-aaron-pico\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered an injury<\/a> and was forced to withdraw from the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that disappointing news, fans will still get to see Pico make his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Octagon<\/a> debut in the very near future.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast team announced that Aaron Pico will be fighting Lerone Murphy in the co-main event of UFC 319 on August 16th during today\u2019s fight card in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING NEWS \ud83d\udea8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeroneMurphy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@LeroneMurphy<\/a> vs Aaron Pico is the new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC319?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#UFC319<\/a> co-main event! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zVLVgb0bIK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/zVLVgb0bIK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1949209509664333936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pico (13-4 MMA) will enter his Octagon debut sporting a three-fight winning streak, with his most recent victory coming by way of first-round TKO over Henry Corrales in February of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lerone Murphy (16-0-1 MMA) is currently riding an eight-fight winning streak, with his latest victory coming over former title challenger Josh Emmett in April of this year.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 319 is headlined by a middleweight title fight featuring reigning champion Dricus Du Plessis taking on undefeated challenger Khamzat Chimaev.<\/p>\n<p>Also featured on the pay-per-view main card lineup is an intriguing middleweight contest between Michael \u2018Venom\u2019 Page and Jared Cannonier.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think will emerge victorious when Aaron Pico and Lerone Murphy throw down in the co-main event of UFC 319 next month in Chicago? Share your predictions in the comment sections on social media PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Pico will be competing in the co-headliner of next month\u2019s UFC 319 pay-per-view event in Chicago, Illinois.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-24775","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\/24775","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=24775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}