{"id":536588,"date":"2026-03-12T23:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536588\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:57:07","slug":"undefeated-dana-white-contender-series-favorite-books-next-fight-at-ufc-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536588\/","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated Dana White Contender Series favorite books next fight at UFC 328"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Undefeated Dana White Contender Series favorite Baisangur Susurkaev is expected to return to action at UFC 328 when he faces Djorden Santos on May 9 at the event currently planned for Newark, N.J. at the Prudential Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Thursday following an initial report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/leoguimaraesmma\/status\/2032075344811831374?s=46&amp;t=lVOigyzcTdigwf6Y_r0ltg\" rel=\"nofollow\">Leo Guimaraes on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Susurkaev immediately became a fan favorite after he scored a brutal body shot knockout on The Contender series to earn his contract with the UFC and then he turned around and fought again four days later at UFC 319 in August. On that night, Susurkaev dispatched Eric Nolan with a second round rear-naked choke submission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Following that win, Susurkaev returned to knock out Eric McConico at UFC 322 this past November to move his UFC record to 2-0 and his overall record to 11-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He now clashes with Santos, who enters the bout with a 1-1 record in the UFC after he also made his way to the promotion by way of The Contender Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After dropping his debut in a decision to Ozzy Diaz back in March 2025, Santos bounced back with a win over Danny Barlow. He\u2019ll now look to pull off an upset when he faces the highly touted Susurkaev when they meet in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As of now, the UFC hasn\u2019t officially announced UFC 328 in May, although several fights have already been confirmed for the card. A main event is also still pending with rumors swirling that the card could potentially mark the return of UFC middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Guilherme Cruz contributed to this report <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undefeated Dana White Contender Series favorite Baisangur Susurkaev is expected to return to action at UFC 328 when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536589,"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-536588","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\/536588","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=536588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}