The UFC recently announced a matchup at UFC 326 between Paulo Costa and Brunno Ferreira. Here’s what you need to know ahead of the fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Paulo Costa vs. Brunno FerreiraRecords: Costa (15-4 MMA, 7-4 UFC), Ferreira (15-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC)Division: MiddleweightRankings:\u00a0Borralho No. 9, Ferreira No. 15 (MMA Junkie); Borralho No. 9, Ferreira NR (UFC)\u00a0What’s at stake for Costa<\/p>\n
After a 13-0 start to his career, Costa got a title shot against Israel Adesanya<\/a> in 2020, but was finished in the second round. That setback started a stretch of four losses in five fights, including against ex-champs Robert Whittaker and Sean Strickland<\/a> in 2024. But in July, Costa bounced back for his first win in nearly three years when he outworked Roman Kopylov at UFC 318.<\/p>\n What’s at stake for Ferreira<\/p>\n The 33-year-old Brazilian has won five of his past six and three in a row, including armbar finishes of ARmen Petrosyan and Jackson McVey consecutively earlier this year. But at UFC 323, he missed weight for his fight against ex-title challenger Marvin Vettori, a unanimous decision win. That fight also was the first time in his career Ferreira had to go the distance. \u00a0<\/p>\n Statistically speaking<\/p>\n Costa has not had a stoppage win since a bonus-winning knockout of Uriah Hall in mid-2018. Ferreira lost his 100 percent finishing rate against Vettori. Prior to that, he was a perfect 14 for 14 with finishes.\u00a0<\/p>\n Make your pickScreening room<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC recently announced a matchup at UFC 326 between Paulo Costa and Brunno Ferreira. Here’s what you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[174977,106055,449,64,63,786,6897,54075,796,801,785,324,44,323,335,5110,43022,85,635,198851,787,174978],"class_list":["post-366262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-174977","tag-adesanya","tag-arts","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-israel","tag-israel-adesanya","tag-martial","tag-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-sean","tag-sean-strickland","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-strickland","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-323"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366262","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=366262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}