{"id":621988,"date":"2026-04-21T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621988\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:15:08","slug":"ufc-329-cory-sandhagen-books-pivotal-rematch-for-international-fight-week-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621988\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 329: Cory Sandhagen books pivotal rematch for International Fight Week event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC\u2019s International Fight Week event has added a pivotal bantamweight matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that recent title challenger Cory Sandhagen is set to face Mario Bautista in a rematch at UFC 329, which takes place July 11 in Las Vegas. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MagicM_MMABets\/status\/2046624980947849702?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">MagicM<\/a> first reported on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sandhagen submitted Bautista in their first meeting at UFC on ESPN+ 1 in January 2019, with Bautista stepping in on short notice to replace John Lineker. Sandhagen has dropped two of three, and is 4-2 in his past six bouts, including a decision loss to then-champ Merab Dvalishvili at UFC 320 this past October. Prior to that, Sandhagen earned himself a championship opportunity in a lopsided stoppage win over Deiveson Figueiredo in the main event of UFC Des Moines in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Since the debut loss to Sandhagen, Bautista has picked up victories in 11 of 13. After having his eight-fight win streak snapped by Umar Nurmagomedov at UFC 321 this past October, the 32-year-old stopped Vinicius Oliveira in the main event of February\u2019s UFC Vegas 113 fight card.<\/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":"The UFC\u2019s International Fight Week event has added a pivotal bantamweight matchup. Multiple people with knowledge of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-621988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621988","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=621988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}