{"id":342053,"date":"2025-12-12T01:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342053\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:15:07","slug":"brandon-moreno-returns-at-ufc-mexico-after-tko-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342053\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Moreno Returns at UFC Mexico After TKO Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAssassin Baby\u201d isn\u2019t wasting any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former two-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight champion Brandon Moreno is set to return at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-paramount-plus-news-hub-fight-cards-schedule\/407489\/where-when-ufc-releases-2026-q1-schedule-including-returns-to-mexico-city-london-and-seattle-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Mexico<\/a> on Sat., Feb. 28, 2025, taking on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 7-ranked<\/a> Asu Almabayev inside Arena CDMX in Mexico City. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VestnikMMA\/status\/1999155761692491918?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">VestnikMMA<\/a> was first to report the matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s unclear whether this will headline the card, but given Moreno\u2019s star power \u2014 and the fact he headlined last year\u2019s UFC Mexico event \u2014 there\u2019s a strong chance he ends up on top of the bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for Almabayev (23-3), 2025 started rough. He suffered his first UFC defeat when Manel Kape stopped him in March (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/3\/1\/24375733\/watch-video-highlights-ufc-vegas-103-results-espn-kape-knockout-eye-poke-rake-almabayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>). Since then, the Kazakh standout has rebounded nicely with back-to-back wins \u2014 a dominant performance against Jose Ochoa at UFC Abu Dhabi and a gritty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/403986\/ufc-qatar-live-results-highlights-play-by-play-tsarukyan-vs-hooker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">come-from-behind submission<\/a> over Alex Perez at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/403986\/ufc-qatar-live-results-highlights-play-by-play-tsarukyan-vs-hooker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Qatar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s how UFC Mexico is shaping up so far:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brandon Moreno vs. Asu Almabayev<br \/>Jose Medina vs. Ryan Gandra<br \/>Imanol Rodriguez vs. Kevin Borjas<br \/>Felipe Bunes vs. Edgar Chairez<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/pages\/ufc-mma-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAssassin Baby\u201d isn\u2019t wasting any time. Former two-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight champion Brandon Moreno is set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,61604,1396,179146],"class_list":{"0":"post-342053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-fight-announcements","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-ufc-on-paramount"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342053","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=342053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}