{"id":397150,"date":"2026-01-07T09:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397150\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:09:06","slug":"surging-melquizael-costa-returns-versus-veteran-dan-ige-at-ufc-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397150\/","title":{"rendered":"Surging Melquizael Costa returns versus veteran Dan Ige at UFC Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Exciting UFC Featherweight contenders will collide in \u201cH-Town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to a first report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/464835\/dan-ige-vs-melquizael-costa-targeted-for-ufc-houston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMAFighting<\/a>, surging 145-pound striker Melquizael Costa will return to action versus hard-nosed veteran Dan Ige. The duo will throw down at UFC Houston, which is scheduled for Feb. 21 inside the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Ige matchup will be the 29-year-old Brazilian\u2019s fifth fight in 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Really, this is a perfect bit of 145-pound matchmaking. Costa has earned his opportunity against a ranked opponent, and Ige has proven more than capable in separating the wheat from the chaff as a perfect guard to the highest echelon of Featherweight competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Who takes home the victory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exciting UFC Featherweight contenders will collide in \u201cH-Town.\u201d According to a first report from MMAFighting, surging 145-pound striker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146],"class_list":["post-397150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397150","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=397150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}