{"id":417799,"date":"2026-01-16T22:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/417799\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:24:11","slug":"josh-emmett-vs-kevin-vallejos-set-for-ufc-vegas-114-headliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/417799\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Emmett vs. Kevin Vallejos set for UFC Vegas 114 headliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kevin Vallejos looks to take down another top-15 UFC featherweight contender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The promotion announced on Friday that Vallejos is set to face Josh Emmett in the main event of UFC Vegas 114, which takes place March 14 at the UFC\u2019s Meta APEX in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After going on an impressive five-fight win streak that led to an interim title fight, Emmett has dropped four of his past five bouts. The 40-year-old suffered a submission losses against Yair Rodriguez in the interim championship bout at UFC 284 in February 2023, and in his most recent bout against Youssef Zalal at UFC 320 in October, along with suffering decision losses to Ilia Topuria and Lerone Murphy. Emmett\u2019s lone win during the five-fight run is a brutal knockout of Bryce Mitchell at UFC 296 in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Vallejos is one of the top prospects in the entire sport, and entered the UFC rankings after just three octagon appearances after knocking out Giga Chikadze at UFC Vegas 112 in December. The 24-year-old\u2019s lone loss in 18 bouts came via decision to Jean Silva in their classic bout on Dana White\u2019s Contender Series in September 2023. Vallejos earned wins in his first two promotional contests against Seung Woo Choi and Danny Silva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Vallejos looks to take down another top-15 UFC featherweight contender. The promotion announced on Friday that Vallejos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417800,"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-417799","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\/417799","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=417799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}