{"id":26031,"date":"2025-07-27T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26031\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:50:08","slug":"ufc-320-adds-farid-basharat-vs-chris-gutierrez-to-las-vegas-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26031\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 320 adds Farid Basharat vs. Chris Gutierrez to Las Vegas event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 320 gains a fun matchup at bantamweight.<\/p>\n<p>Farid Basharat is set to take on Chris Gutierrez at the event taking place Oct. 4 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event features two title fights, headlined by a light heavyweight title rematch between Magomed Ankalaev and Alex Pereira. Merab Dvalishvili faces Cory Sandhagen in the co-feature for the bantamweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MMA Junkie confirmed the booking between Basharat (13-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC) and Gutierrez (22-5-2 MMA, 10-3-1 UFC) with two sources. Both fighters competed in 145-pound bouts in their last outing, but will return to 135 pounds. The promotion has not yet officially announced the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Basharat, a Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series veteran, is undefeated in his professional career. He has turned heads through his first four UFC fights, picking up decision wins over Da&#8217;Mon Blackshear, Taylor Lapilus, and Victor Hugo, along with a first-round submission of Kleydson Rodrigues. This will be his first fight of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez dropped his UFC debut, but then when on a hot streak, putting together an eight-fight unbeaten run. He enters his second fight of 2025 on a two-fight winning streak with wins over Quang Le and John Castaneda.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition, the current UFC 320 lineup includes:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Magomed Ankalaev vs. Alex Pereira \u2013 for light heavyweight title<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Merab Dvalishvili vs. Cory Sandhagen \u2013 for bantamweight title<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Abus Magomedov vs. Joe Pyfer<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jiri Prochazka vs. Khalil Rountree Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Andre Muniz vs. Edmen Shahbazyan<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Macy Chiasson vs. Yana Santos<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ozzy Diaz vs. Ateba Gautier<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/07\/27\/ufc-320-farid-basharat-vs-chris-gutierrez-set-for-las-vegas-event\/85398043007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 320: Farid Basharat vs. Chris Gutierrez set for Las Vegas event;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 320: Farid Basharat vs. Chris Gutierrez set for Las Vegas event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 320 gains a fun matchup at bantamweight. Farid Basharat is set to take on Chris Gutierrez at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[11159,64,63,25359,25362,25360,786,25361,25363,785,3169,85,787],"class_list":["post-26031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alex-pereira","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chris-gutierrez","tag-cory-sandhagen","tag-farid-basharat","tag-fighting","tag-magomed-ankalaev","tag-merab-dvalishvili","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031","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=26031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}