{"id":537093,"date":"2026-03-13T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537093\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:16:08","slug":"reaction-dana-white-announces-khamzat-chimaev-vs-sean-strickland-several-other-key-matchups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537093\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction: Dana White announces Khamzat Chimaev vs. Sean Strickland, several other key matchups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC CEO Dana White promised a plethora of news on Thursday, and a lot of announcements were made, including the main event for UFC 328 in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">White announced that Khamzat Chimaev vs. Sean Strickland for the UFC middleweight title headlines the May 9 event at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Chimaev is set to make his first title defense after his dominant championship victory over Dricus du Plessis at UFC 319 this past August, while Strickland competes in his fourth title fight as he looks to become a two-time champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Following the news, MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck reacts to the UFC 328 headliner between Chimaev and Strickland, and the other new matchups that were made official for the numbered event. Additionally, topics include announced headliners such as Belal Muhammad vs. Gabriel Bonfim, Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Song Yadong, Arnold Allen vs. Melquizael Costa, if there were any surprises, the fan base being down on the UFC product even after the announcements, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC CEO Dana White promised a plethora of news on Thursday, and a lot of announcements were made,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,45518,1591,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-537093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mmaf-podcast-network","tag-podcasts","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537093","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=537093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}