{"id":540967,"date":"2026-03-15T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540967\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:48:07","slug":"slew-of-ufc-perth-fights-announced-including-tai-tuivasa-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540967\/","title":{"rendered":"Slew of UFC Perth fights announced, including Tai Tuivasa return"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UFC has announced a slew of fights for its upcoming card in Perth.<\/p>\n

UFC Fight Night 275<\/a> takes place May 2 at RAC Arena.<\/p>\n

The main event, Jack Della Maddalena (18-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) vs. Carlos Prates (23-7 MMA, 6-1 UFC), and the co-main event, Beneil Dariush (23-7-1 MMA, 17-7-1 UFC) vs. Quillan Salkilld (11-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC), have already been released. But now five more fights have joined the lineup.<\/p>\n

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Among the additions is UFC heavyweight fan favorite Tai Tuivasa (14-9 MMA, 8-9 UFC), who will take on Sean Sharaf (4-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC). Flyweight contenders Steve Erceg (13-4 MMA, 4-3 UFC) and Tim Elliott (21-13-1 MMA, 10-11 UFC) will throw down, as will veteran middleweights Jacob Malkoun (9-3 MMA, 5-3 UFC) and Gerald Meerschaert (37-21 MMA, 12-13 UFC).<\/p>\n

Also added to the card: Kevin Christian (9-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC vs. Junior Tafa (6-5 MMA, 2-5 UFC) (first reported by Leo Guimaraes<\/a>) and Robert Bryczek vs. Cam Rowston.<\/p>\n

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The UFC Perth lineup includes:<\/p>\n

Jack Della Maddalena vs. Carlos Prates<\/p>\n

Beneil Dariush vs. Quillan Salkilld<\/p>\n

Tai Tuivasa vs. Sean Sharaf<\/p>\n

Tim Elliott vs. Steve Erceg<\/p>\n

Jacob Malkoun vs. Gerald Meerschaert<\/p>\n

Robert Bryczek vs. Cam Rowston<\/p>\n

Kevin Christian vs. Junior Tafa<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC Perth fight card adds Tai Tuivasa return, 4 other bouts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC has announced a slew of fights for its upcoming card in Perth. UFC Fight Night 275…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,152484,48142,786,52244,27141,268046,268045,785,200975,85,4907,112899,57052,787],"class_list":["post-540967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beneil-dariush","tag-carlos-prates","tag-fighting","tag-gerald-meerschaert","tag-jack-della-maddalena","tag-jacob-malkoun","tag-kevin-christian","tag-mma","tag-quillan-salkilld","tag-sports","tag-steve-erceg","tag-tai-tuivasa","tag-tim-elliott","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540967","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=540967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}