{"id":346831,"date":"2025-12-14T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346831\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:16:08","slug":"bautista-to-battle-oliveira-at-ufc-fight-night-on-feb-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346831\/","title":{"rendered":"Bautista to battle Oliveira at UFC Fight Night on Feb. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brett OkamotoDec 14, 2025, 03:54 PM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.<\/p>\n

A bantamweight matchup between Mario Bautista and Vinicius Oliveira will headline UFC Fight Night on Feb. 7 in Las Vegas, officials announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The UFC Fight Night card will take place at the Apex facility, and mark the first UFC Fight Night event on the promotion’s new domestic broadcast deal with Paramount+. The first two numbered events of the deal will take place on back-to-back weekends with UFC 324 and UFC 325 on Jan. 24 and Jan. 31, respectively.<\/p>\n

Bautista and Oliveira are the Nos. 9 and 12-ranked bantamweights, respectively. Bautista (16-3) had won eight in a row, before dropping a unanimous decision to Umar Nurmagomedov in October. Oliveira (23-3) has emerged as a darkhorse of the division, with recent wins over the likes of Kyler Phillips and Said Nurmagomedov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett OkamotoDec 14, 2025, 03:54 PM CloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-346831","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-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346831","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=346831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}