{"id":628177,"date":"2026-04-24T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628177\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:13:19","slug":"tai-tuivasa-books-new-opponent-for-ufc-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628177\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Tuivasa books new opponent for UFC Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tai Tuivasa has a fight at UFC Perth after all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The matchmakers worked quickly to keep Australia\u2019s Tuivasa (14-9) on the May 2 card after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/484166\/tai-tuivasa-loses-ufc-perth-opponent-due-to-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he lost originally scheduled opponent<\/a> Sean Sharaf to injury earlier this week. Tuivasa now fights Louie Sutherland (10-5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">See the official announcement below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With Sutherland stepping in, Tuivasa has a chance to break the worst slump of his career. He has lost six straight fights dating back to 2022, including finish losses to Marcin Tybura, Alexander Volkov, Sergei Pavlovich, and Ciryl Gane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sutherland, like Sharaf, has far less UFC experience than Tuivasa, having fought just twice for the promotion since making his debut this past October. The Englishman is 0-2 with first-round losses to Brando Pericic and Valter Walker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Perth takes place at RAC Arena and is headlined by a welterweight bout between former champion Jack Della Maddalena and Carlos Prates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tai Tuivasa has a fight at UFC Perth after all. The matchmakers worked quickly to keep Australia\u2019s Tuivasa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628178,"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-628177","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\/628177","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=628177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}