{"id":525865,"date":"2026-03-08T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525865\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:30:08","slug":"live-results-and-analysis-for-ufc-326-holloway-vs-oliveira-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525865\/","title":{"rendered":"Live results and analysis for UFC 326: Holloway vs. Oliveira 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC champions <a data-player-guid=\"7e45261b-2ad6-dd5a-d2b8-c1056ad16e5f\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/2614933\/max-holloway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Holloway<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"8989cfe6-e393-a834-a54b-9de5d5a26e44\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/2504169\/charles-oliveira\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Oliveira<\/a> will clash in a rematch 11 years after the first bout, as the pair headlines UFC 326 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the first fight, a UFC belt will be on the line Saturday night, when Holloway looks to defend the BMF title that signifies the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/story\/_\/id\/48090414\/the-untold-origin-story-bmf-title-told-man-created-it\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC&#8217;s grittiest, most exciting fighter<\/a>. Holloway first took control of the belt at UFC 300 in April 2024, beating <a data-player-guid=\"9eafa488-d359-4697-8978-d93ec761b4cf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/3022345\/justin-gaethje\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Gaethje<\/a> by fifth-round KO. Holloway then became the first person to successfully defend the belt via a unanimous decision over <a data-player-guid=\"d2f9674e-3717-5a71-8681-95fd39f91d46\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/2506549\/dustin-poirier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Poirier<\/a> at UFC 318 last July. Oliveira beat <a data-player-guid=\"af8f3faa-aea2-68fb-aed6-f18c7de2b65c\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/3068125\/mateusz-gamrot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mateusz Gamrot<\/a> by second-round submission in his most recent Octagon appearance in October.<\/p>\n<p>Middleweight contenders <a data-player-guid=\"671b663a-33f6-313e-9c27-b68d1fcf245a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/4835137\/caio-borralho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caio Borralho<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/4423880\/reinier-de-ridder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reinier de Ridder<\/a> square off in the co-main event, and <a data-player-guid=\"fd5919e2-2cb1-3fa6-a1cf-c20d20b27f6e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/5088844\/raul-rosas-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raul Rosas Jr.<\/a>, 21, takes on veteran fighter <a data-player-guid=\"8f7597c5-fb10-4da3-cc6f-a1cb393a5ff0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/_\/id\/3090451\/rob-font\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Font<\/a>, who is 17 years his elder.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Okamoto, Andreas Hale and Jeff Wagenheim break down all the action from UFC 326 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC champions Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira will clash in a rematch 11 years after the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-525865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525865","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=525865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}