{"id":606567,"date":"2026-04-14T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606567\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:19:08","slug":"fares-ziam-draws-unranked-tom-nolan-at-ufc-fight-night-278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606567\/","title":{"rendered":"Fares Ziam draws unranked Tom Nolan at UFC Fight Night 278"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fares Ziam is yet to get matched up with a ranked UFC lightweight.<\/p>\n

Ziam takes on rising Tom Nolan at\u00a0UFC Fight Night 278\u00a0on June 6, which takes place at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas (Paramount+<\/a>). Both fighters confirmed the news on social media after an initial report from MMA Odds Breaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ziam (18-4 MMA, 8-2 UFC) debuted in the UFC’s 155-pound rankings after finishing Nazim Sadykhov by TKO at UFC 323<\/a> this past December. The win over Sadykhov marked the 29-year-old Algerian-French fighter’s sixth win in a row.<\/p>\n

Since losing his UFC debut, Dana White’s Contender Series alum Nolan (10-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) has won four straight fights. The Aussie is coming off a bonus-winning submission of Charlie Campbell at UFC Fight Night 260<\/a> last June.<\/p>\n

The latest UFC Fight Night 278 lineup includes:<\/p>\n

Belal Muhammad v. Gabriel Bonfim<\/p>\n

Brendan Allen vs. Edmen Shahbazyan<\/p>\n

Jeisla Chaves vs. Yuneisy Duben<\/p>\n

Edgar Chairez vs. Bruno Silva<\/p>\n

Joanderson Brito vs. Jordan Leavitt<\/p>\n

Ariane Carnelossi vs. Ketlen Souza<\/p>\n

Iwo Baraniewski vs. Billy Elekana<\/p>\n

Imanol Rodriguez vs. Matt Schnell<\/p>\n

Priscila Cachoeira vs. Chelsea Chandler<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Fares Ziam draws unranked lightweight at UFC Fight Night 278<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fares Ziam is yet to get matched up with a ranked UFC lightweight. Ziam takes on rising Tom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,78259,786,785,187339,85,112889,787],"class_list":["post-606567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fares-ziam","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-nazim-sadykhov","tag-sports","tag-tom-nolan","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606567","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=606567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}