{"id":407057,"date":"2026-01-11T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407057\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:24:09","slug":"ufc-mexico-52-fight-veteran-takes-on-up-and-coming-lightweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407057\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Mexico: 52-fight veteran takes on up-and-coming lightweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">King Green is getting the ball rolling already in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UFCEspanol\/status\/2009988713301062076\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> Saturday that Green (33-17-1, 1 NC) is set to take on Daniel Zellhuber (15-3) at UFC Mexico on Feb. 28. When Green steps into the octagon, it will be his 29th appearance for the promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Green, 14-12-1 (1 NC) in the UFC, is coming off of a split decision win over the debuting Lance Gibson Jr. That victory snapped a two-fight skid after Green was on the wrong end of the Knockout of the Year against Mauricio Ruffy and a first-round submission at the hands of Paddy Pimblett. His most recent wins include Gibson, Jim Miller, Grant Dawson, and Tony Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mexico\u2019s Zellhuber made his UFC debut in 2022 after being signed off of Dana White\u2019s Contender Series. The 26-year-old lost to Trey Ogden before stringing together consecutive wins over Lando Vannata, Christos Giagos, and Francisco Prado. However, his rise up the ranks has been halted by a two-fight skid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Mexico is headlined by a flyweight bout between former champion Brandon Moreno and Asu Almabayev. The event takes place at Arena CDMX in Mexico City on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Green is getting the ball rolling already in 2026. The UFC announced Saturday that Green (33-17-1, 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-407057","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-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407057","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=407057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}