{"id":595154,"date":"2026-04-09T07:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:22:11","slug":"ufc-327-brings-awesome-undercard-to-kaseya-center-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595154\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 327 Brings Awesome Undercard To Kaseya Center Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC 327<\/a> fight week is here. Saturday night, a packed April of fights from the No. 1 MMA promotion in the world continues. As has been the case for the past several years, Kaseya Center, the home court of the NBA\u2019s Miami Heat, serves as the setting for this week\u2019s card.<\/p>\n

Live coverage of UFC 327 begins with the early prelims at 5:30 pm ET\/ 2:30 pm PT. Stateside, this portion of the show can be seen in a simulcast on both Paramount Plus<\/a> and UFC Fight Pass.<\/a><\/p>\n

Late prelims continue the evening at 7 pm ET\/ 4 pm PT with this TV note: CBS will join the prelims in-progress at 8 pm ET\/ 5 pm PT. The five-fight main card will begin on both Paramount Plus and CBS at 9 pm ET\/ 6 pm PT before moving to Paramount Plus exclusively at 10 pm ET\/ 7 pm PT.<\/p>\n

If there are no adjustments to be made to the schedule<\/a>, the card, highlighted by a light heavyweight title bout<\/a> in the main event,<\/a> will feature a slate of 12 fights.<\/p>\n

UFC 327 Featured Prelim: No. 13 Contender Patricio Pitbull vs. Aaron Pico<\/p>\n

At the top of the bill for the undercard, the featherweights take to the fabled Octagon in a battle of Bellator MMA alumni when No. 13 contender Patricio Pitbull<\/a> (37-8 MMA, 1-1 UFC) meets Aaron Pico<\/a> (13-5 MMA, 0-1 UFC.) All fights mentioned herein are an advertised maximum of three rounds at five minutes per round.<\/p>\n

Pitbull (real name Patricio Freire) enters UFC 327 this weekend having posted a record of 2-3 in his last five fights. Back on July 19 in New Orleans, he scored a unanimous decision victory over Dan Ige (19-11 MMA, 11-10 UFC) during UFC 318.<\/p>\n

He was then scheduled to make a quick turnaround for a fight versus Losene Keita (16-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) in what was to have been the latter\u2019s UFC debut during UFC Paris in September. This fight wound up canceled after Keita failed to make weight the day before the event.<\/p>\n

He hasn\u2019t had a fight in close to nine months and went through the entirety of his pre-fight exercises in September, only to see the contest scrubbed for reasons beyond his control. Will this motivate Pitbull to a victory in UFC 327?<\/p>\n

Across the way, Aaron Pico will come into Kaseya Center sporting an inverse mark of 3-2 over the past five contests. This past August, he was on the receiving end of a first-round knockout (spinning back elbow)<\/a> from Lerone Murphy (17-1-1 MMA, 9-1-1 UFC) in Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Prior to that knockout, he\u2019d won three fights in succession dating back to his stint in Bellator MMA. How will Pico fare here?<\/p>\n

UFC 327 Co-Featured Prelim: Kevin Holland vs. Randy Brown<\/p>\n

Immediately beforehand, the co-featured undercard bout happens at 170 lbs. Kevin Holland<\/a> (28-15, 1 NC MMA, 15-12, 1 NC UFC) meets Randy Brown<\/a> (20-7 MMA, 14-7 UFC) in this contest. Kevin Holland comes in with a record of 2-3 in his five latest contests.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been a streaky fighter of late, having dropped two consecutive fights after winning two in a row. This past October, he dropped a unanimous decision to Mike Malott (13-2-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Which version of Kevin Holland is the one who will show up this weekend? If it\u2019s the version of Holland who won two straight fights, he\u2019ll be in good shape.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Randy Brown is 3-2 in his last five fights coming into UFC 327. On Nov. 8, in a rescheduling of a postponed fight\u00a0 from Oct. 11 from Rio de Janeiro, he lost by way of second-round knockout (clinch knee) to Gabriel Bonfim (19-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC.)<\/p>\n

This result snapped a three-fight winning streak for Brown. While a fighter may be dangerous when he\u2019s on a hot streak, he can be just as brutal coming off of a hot streak.<\/p>\n

UFC 327: No. 8 Contender Mateusz Gamrot vs. Esteban Ribovics<\/p>\n

Also on the UFC 327 undercard, you\u2019ll be treated to a lightweight showcase between No. 8 contender Mateusz Gamrot<\/a> (25-4, 1 NC MMA, 8-4 UFC) and Esteban Ribovics<\/a> (15-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC.) Gamrot comes into Saturday\u2019s card on the strength of a 3-2 record.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll be looking to rebound from an Oct. 11 loss in Rio to Charles Oliveira (37-11, 1 NC MMA, 25-11, 1 NC UFC) via second-round submission (rear-naked choke.) He hasn\u2019t had a sustained winning streak since winning three in a row from March of 2023 to March of 2024. Can he put himself within shouting distance of the title picture at 155?<\/p>\n

In the other corner, Ribovics has gone 4-1 in his last five fights. Last August in Enterprise, NV, he returned to the win column with a unanimous decision victory over Elves Brener (16-6 MMA, 3-3 UFC) after 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

With Ribovics squaring off against a ranked opponent here, a win would do wonders for him in UFC 327.<\/p>\n

Rest of the Prelims<\/p>\n

The UFC 327 undercard is rounded out by the following contests:<\/p>\n

A strawweight fight between No. 2 contender Tatiana Suarez (11-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC) and No. 6 contender Loopy Godinez (14-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC,)
\na lightweight bout matching Chris Padilla (17-6 MMA, 4-0 UFC) against MarQuel Medeiros (11-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) in the featured early prelim,
\na middleweight encounter versing Kelvin Gastelum (20-10, 1 NC MMA, 14-10, 1 NC UFC) with Vicente Luque (23-12-1 MMA, 16-8 UFC,)
\nand a welterweight showcase pairing Charles Radtke (11-5 MMA, 4-2 UFC) and Francisco Prado (12-4 MMA, 1-4 UFC.)<\/p>\n

Which fights are you looking forward to? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 327 fight week is here. Saturday night, a packed April of fights from the No. 1 MMA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-595154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595154","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=595154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}