{"id":419641,"date":"2026-01-17T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419641\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:52:09","slug":"ufc-seattle-veteran-welterweight-books-opponent-for-homecoming-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419641\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Seattle: Veteran welterweight books opponent for homecoming fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Michael Chiesa is coming home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the first time 12 years, Chiesa (19-7) gets his chance to fight in his home state of Washington when he takes on Carlston Harris (19-7) in a welterweight bout at UFC Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena on March 28. The UFC officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTniPfajCFr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> the bout Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chiesa, a Colorado native who later grew up on Spokane, is currently on a three-fight win streak. In his lone outing of 2025, Chiesa won a unanimous decision over fellow veteran Court McGee to add to recent wins against Max Griffin and Tony Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He competes in Washington for the first time since July 2013, when he was handed his first pro loss by Jorge Masvidal at an event also in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Harris is looking to snap a streak after losing consecutive bouts to Santiago Ponzinibbio and Khaos Williams. It\u2019s been an up-and-down UFC run for Harris who is 4-3 in the promotion. He owns a pair of Performance of the Night bonuses after finishing both Jeremiah Wells and Christian Aguilera with anaconda chokes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Seattle is headlined by a middleweight bout between two-time champion Israel Adesanya and Joe Pyfer.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Chiesa is coming home. For the first time 12 years, Chiesa (19-7) gets his chance to fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419642,"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-419641","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\/419641","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=419641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}