{"id":48653,"date":"2025-08-06T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48653\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:13:07","slug":"ufc-vegas-109-adds-last-minute-light-heavyweight-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48653\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 109 adds last-minute light heavyweight fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Vegas 109 has beefed up the card with the addition of a new light heavyweight fight just days before the event is scheduled to take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cody Brundage, who typically competes at middleweight, is moving up to 205 pounds to take on Eric McConico on the card headlined by Roman Dolidze vs. Anthony Hernandez. UFC officials announced the new matchup on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The fight serves as Brundage\u2019s first appearance since he fought Mansur Abdul-Malik back in June in a bout that initially ended with him losing a technical decision. The stoppage in the fight came after Brundage and Abdul-Malik clashed heads accidentally but rather than declare a no-contest, the referee decided to turn to the judges\u2019 scorecards for a decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, Brundage looks to erase the bad memories from that entire experience and get back on track when he fights on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for McConico, he\u2019s making his second appearance in the UFC after suffering a knockout loss in his debut in a fight against Nusulton Ruziboev. Overall, McConico sports a 9-3-1 record and he\u2019ll attempt to get his first UFC win on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 109 has beefed up the card with the addition of a new light heavyweight fight just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48654,"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-48653","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\/48653","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=48653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}