{"id":586616,"date":"2026-04-05T07:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586616\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:40:21","slug":"ufc-flyweight-champion-joshua-van-out-of-title-defense-at-ufc-327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586616\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Flyweight Champion Joshua Van Out Of Title Defense At UFC 327"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-327\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 327<\/a> has taken a major hit, as the UFC flyweight championship co-main event will not go on as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Per a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/480397\/joshua-van-out-of-ufc-327-title-fight-with-tatsuro-taira\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guilherme Cruz of MMA Fighting<\/a>, UFC flyweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/joshua-van\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Van<\/a> has withdrawn from next weekend&#8217;s numbered UFC card.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, there is no word on why Van has withdrawn. Cruz&#8217;s report cites &#8220;undisclosed reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is also unclear if planned title challenger Tatsuro Taira will fight for an interim title or if the planned Van vs. Taira title fight will be pushed back to another card.<\/p>\n<p>Some members of the MMA community on social media, including Magic M and Caposa, seemed to have hinted at the latter.<\/p>\n<p>This was to be Van&#8217;s first defense of the UFC flyweight title. He won the belt at UFC 323 after Alexandre Pantoja suffered an injury during their fight.<\/p>\n<p>That same night, Taira earned a title shot by finishing former flyweight champion Brandon Moreno.<\/p>\n<p>One title fight for UFC 327 remains &#8212; the main event featuring Jiri Prochazka and Carlos Ulberg for the to-be-vacant UFC light heavyweight championship.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 327 takes place on April 11 from the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 327 has taken a major hit, as the UFC flyweight championship co-main event will not go on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,41111,785,85,29100,205749],"class_list":{"0":"post-586616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-joshua-van","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tatsuro-taira","15":"tag-ufc-327"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586616","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=586616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}