{"id":617898,"date":"2026-04-19T21:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617898\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:57:11","slug":"jafel-filho-gets-new-ufc-vegas-116-opponent-on-6-days-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617898\/","title":{"rendered":"Jafel Filho gets new UFC Vegas 116 opponent on 6 days\u2019 notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cody Durden is stepping in on six days\u2019 notice to replace Lucas Rocha against flyweight Jafel Filho on Saturday in Las Vegas, multiple people with knowledge of the situation confirmed with MMA Fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Vegas 116 takes place at the Meta APEX on April 25 and features Aljamain Sterling vs. Youssef Zalal in the main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Durden (17-10-1) enters the octagon on a four fight losing skid and 1-6 in his past seven UFC appearances, a stretch that dropped his promotional record to 6-8-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 35-year-old holds victories over the likes of Charles Johnson and Matt Schnell, but went winless since 2024 against Joshua Van, Jose Ochoa, Allan Nascimento and Nyamjargal Tumendemberel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Filho (17-4) made short work of Clayton Carpenter in his most recent bout in October, winning via first-round submission to rebound from a decision defeat to fellow Brazilian Allan Nascimento.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Nova Uniao fighter was victorious in eight of his past 10 fights since 2018, all by finish \u2014 including a knockout over Roybert Echeverria on Dana White\u2019s Contender Series. The other loss during that run was in his UFC debut against Muhammad Mokaev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check the updated UFC Vegas 116 line-up below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Damon Martin contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Durden is stepping in on six days\u2019 notice to replace Lucas Rocha against flyweight Jafel Filho on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-617898","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-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617898","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=617898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}