{"id":526726,"date":"2026-03-08T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526726\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:21:07","slug":"biggest-winners-loser-from-ufc-326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526726\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Winners, Loser From UFC 326"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC 326 <\/a>went down last night (Sat., March 7, 2026) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, which saw Charles Oliveira defeat Max Holloway in the main event of the evening via unanimous decision thanks to a suffocating performance. In the co-main event, Caio Borralho also shut out Reinier de Ridder to win on all of the judges scorecards after 15 minutes of Middleweight action.<\/p>\n

Biggest Winner: Charles Oliveira<\/p>\n

I get that a lot of people were left feeling robbed of a potential classic \u201cBMF\u201d title fight after Oliveira dominated the fight for the majority of the 25 minutes it lasted on the ground, but \u201cDo Bronx\u201d did what he had to do avoid Holloway\u2019s big shots on the feet and went to his bread and butter to get the win and the title. The victory gets him one step closer to another shot at the title, though he is likely another big win away from that. Regardless, Oliveira adds more hardware to his mantle by taking out a legend of the game in dominant fashion. And, if we\u2019re being honest, the moments it did last on the feet Oliveira seemed to get the better of the exchanges.<\/p>\n

Runner (s) Up: Drew Dober and Gregory Rodrigues<\/p>\n

Both Dober and Rodrigues snatched up the $100,000 post-fight bonus awards<\/a> for their impressive knockout wins. Rodrigues got things started on the main card by icing Bruno Ferreira with a one-hitter quitter that had his fellow countrymen out for the count (see it again here<\/a>), In the process, he earned his much-desired revenge on a man who knocked him out three years ago. In the following fight, Dober was determined not to be outdone as he, too, delivered an electrifying stoppage win by sleeping Michael Johnson in the second round (video here<\/a>). Rodriguez has won three straight while Dober has tasted victory in his last two outings.<\/p>\n

Biggest Loser: Reinier de Ridder<\/p>\n

For the second straight time<\/a>, de Ridder has a very sub-par performance, this time against Borralho, who did his part to dominate the fight for 15 minutes. \u201cThe Dutch Knight\u201d didn\u2019t offer up much offense and couldn\u2019t do much to stop Borralho from implementing his. Prior to this defeat de Ridder was on the receiving end of a ton of criticism<\/a> for his dull output against Brendan Allen in Oct. 2025, which resulted in a fourth-round technical knockout (TKO) win for Allen<\/a>. With two straight losses in his back pocket things aren\u2019t looking too good for a man who came out of the UFC gates hot with four straight wins, including toppling Bo Nickal, Kevin Holland and Robert Whittaker. He needs to get back to those types of performances if he wants to avoid falling further down the Middleweight ladder.<\/p>\n

For complete UFC 326 results, coverage, and highlights click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 326 went down last night (Sat., March 7, 2026) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,193818,179146,6656],"class_list":["post-526726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-326","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526726","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=526726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}