{"id":440889,"date":"2026-01-27T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440889\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:47:07","slug":"ufc-adds-undefeated-heavyweight-to-april-4-card-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440889\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC adds undefeated heavyweight to April 4 card in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Guilherme Pat will return to the octagon to face Thomas Petersen on the UFC Vegas 117 card at the Meta APEX on April 4, multiple people with knowledge of the booking confirmed to MMA Fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC has yet to reveal which bout will serve as the main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pat (6-0) made his UFC debut in December with a decision win over Allen Frye, finally joining the promotion after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/461362\/guilherme-pat-had-4-visas-denied-before-going-from-dwcs-hopeful-to-ufc-fighter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiple visa issues<\/a> forced the cancellation of opportunities on Dana White\u2019s Contender Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cKong\u201d scored finishes in four of his six professional MMA wins, all by knockout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Petersen (10-4) will attempt to get back on track after losing by knockout to Vitor Petrino at UFC Rio in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A former LFA heavyweight champion, \u201dThe Train\u201d lost only one of eight bouts before first entering the DWCS octagon in mid-2023, a stoppage defeat to future top MMA contender Waldo Cortes-Acosta, but has since gone 2-3 under the UFC banner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mike Heck contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guilherme Pat will return to the octagon to face Thomas Petersen on the UFC Vegas 117 card at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-440889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440889","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=440889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}