{"id":536924,"date":"2026-03-13T03:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536924\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:29:10","slug":"ufc-winnipeg-adds-exciting-bantamweight-banger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536924\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Winnipeg adds exciting bantamweight banger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Canadian standout will take the UFC cage for a co-main event in Winnipeg, Manitoba.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Jourdain vs. Kyler Phillips is the latest addition to a growing UFC Fight Night 273 lineup. The card takes place April 18 at Canada Life Centre and streams on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Quebec&#8217;s Jourdain (17-8-1 MMA, 8-7-1 UFC) aims to make it three in a row since dropping down to bantamweight. He comes in off wins over Victor Henry and Davey Grant. A win over Phillips (12-4 MMA, 6-3 UFC) could elevate him into the promotion&#8217;s bantamweight rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona&#8217;s Phillips aims to snap a two-fight skid, coming off losses to Rob Font and Vinicius Oliveira. Phillips holds marquee victories over Song Yadong, Raoni Barcelos, and Pedro Munhoz among others.<\/p>\n<p>The updated UFC Fight Night 267 lineup includes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gilbert Burns vs. Mike Malott<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Charles Jourdain vs. Kyler Phillips<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jasmine Jasudavicius vs. Karine Silva<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">John Castaneda vs. Mark Vologdin<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Allan Nascimento vs. Mitch Raposo<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">DongHun Chui vs. Andre Lima<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/03\/12\/ufc-winnipeg-charles-jourdain-vs-kyler-phillips\/88810954007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Winnipeg adds exciting bantamweight banger;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC Winnipeg adds exciting bantamweight banger&quot;}\" class=\"link \">UFC Winnipeg adds exciting bantamweight banger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Canadian standout will take the UFC cage for a co-main event in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Charles Jourdain vs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,67094,116808,786,76286,3796,785,85,787,263374,266264,201867,7100],"class_list":["post-536924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-canada-life-centre","tag-charles-jourdain","tag-fighting","tag-kyler-phillips","tag-manitoba","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-fight-night-273","tag-victor-henry","tag-vinicius-oliveira","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536924","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=536924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}