{"id":537010,"date":"2026-03-13T04:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537010\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T04:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:23:08","slug":"khamzat-chimaev-vs-sean-strickland-headlines-ufc-328-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537010\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev vs. Sean Strickland Headlines UFC 328"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC released a trailer to promote events that it will be holding throughout the second quarter of 2026 &#8212; and that includes the revealing of the main card for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-328\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 328<\/a> on May 9 in Newark, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The main event of UFC 328 will see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/khamzat-chimaev\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a> defend the UFC middleweight championship against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/sean-strickland\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Strickland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Chimaev&#8217;s first title defense since defeating Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 319 this past August to claim the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland finished Anthony Hernandez in the main event of UFC Houston last month to earn this title shot. Strickland is a former champion; he won the title by upsetting Israel Adesanya at UFC 293 but quickly lost it to DDP at UFC 297.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 328&#8217;s co-main event will be a heavyweight title eliminator, as Alexander Volkov takes on Waldo Cortes-Acosta. Volkov has won six of his last eight, including a split decision over Jailton Almeida at UFC 321. Cortes-Acosta has won three straight and eight of his last nine, including back-to-back first-round knockouts of Ante Delija and Shamil Gaziev, as well as his finish of Derrick Lewis at UFC 324.<\/p>\n<p> Also featured at UFC 328 will be a welterweight contenders bout between Sean Brady and Joaquin Buckley. Both men will be looking to rebound from losses, respectively, against Michael Morales and Kamaru Usman.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Blachowicz and Bogdan Guskov will do battle once again after their UFC 323 encounter ended in a majority draw.<\/p>\n<p>One year after returning in a hearty loss against Mason Jones, UFC veteran and BKFC star Jeremy Stephens will make another Octagon appearance, taking on fellow Octagon veteran King Green.<\/p>\n<p>A middleweight contest featuring Ateba Gautier and Ozzy Diaz is scheduled to be the featured prelim bout.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 328 takes place at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, May 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC released a trailer to promote events that it will be holding throughout the second quarter of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,4120,785,43022,85,266293],"class_list":["post-537010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-khamzat-chimaev","tag-mma","tag-sean-strickland","tag-sports","tag-ufc-328"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537010","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=537010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}