{"id":411709,"date":"2026-01-14T06:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411709\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:24:13","slug":"israel-adesanya-vs-joe-pyfer-alexa-grasso-vs-maycee-barber-announced-for-ufc-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411709\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya vs. Joe Pyfer, Alexa Grasso vs. Maycee Barber Announced For UFC Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-seattle\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Seattle<\/a>&#8216;s headliner will see a former middleweight champion attempt to prove he is still a top talent in the division, while a rising star looks to make his biggest stride toward a future title shot.<\/p>\n<p>Former UFC middleweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/israel-adesanya\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel Adesanya<\/a> will face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/joe-pyfer\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Pyfer<\/a> in the main event of UFC Seattle, which takes place on March 28 at the Climate Pledge Arena.<\/p>\n<p>UFC CEO and President Dana White confirmed the news in an announcement on Instagram Live.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Adesanya vs. Joe Pyfer Headlines UFC Seattle On March 28<\/p>\n<p>This fight is perhaps a must-win for Adesanya, who enters with three straight losses and four defeats in his last five fights. Adesanya, a former two-time champion, has not recovered since losing the title to Sean Strickland in one of the UFC&#8217;s biggest upsets at UFC 293.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya was knocked out by Nassourdine Imavov at UFC Saudi Arabia last February, marking the first time he was finished in a non-title fight.<\/p>\n<p>Pyfer has risen up the UFC&#8217;s middleweight ranks since coming into the promotion off his known 2022 Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series appearance. Pyfer is 6-1 in the Octagon, most recently submitting Abus Magomedov at UFC 320 in October.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC Seattle co-main event will see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/alexa-grasso\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa Grasso<\/a> facing off with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/maycee-barber\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maycee Barber<\/a>. This will be a rematch from UFC 258, which saw Grasso take a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>Grasso is winless in her last three fights, which include the latter two fights in her women&#8217;s flyweight title trilogy with Valentina Shevchenko. Grasso comes into this fight off a loss to Natalia Silva at UFC 315 this past May. <\/p>\n<p>Barber has won seven straight since losing to Grasso. After medical issues kept her away from the Octagon for nearly two years, Barber defeated Karine Silva at UFC 323.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Seattle&#8216;s headliner will see a former middleweight champion attempt to prove he is still a top talent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[56109,64,63,786,54075,217779,190443,785,85,217780],"class_list":["post-411709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alexa-grasso","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-israel-adesanya","tag-joe-pyfer","tag-maycee-barber","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411709","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=411709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}