\u201cFreaky\u201d is still set to scrap \u201cDown Under.\u201d<\/p>\n
Must-watch Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight prospect, Marwan Rahiki, has his next 125-pound opponent. Indeed, after Jack Jenkins withdrew last week<\/a>, Rahiki will now face City Kickboxing\u2019s Ollie Schmid on just four days\u2019 notice at UFC Perth<\/a> this weekend (Sat., May 2, 2026) inside RAC Arena in Perth, Western Australia.<\/p>\n Rahiki (8-0) returns to action two months after his breakout performance in his Octagon debut, where he battered Harry Hardwick, breaking his jaw<\/a> in the second round en route to a \u201cFight of the Night<\/a>\u201d-winning bonus. Before that, Rahiki earned his contract on Contender Series<\/a> in a wild two-round war with Ananias Mulumba, where he was nearly finished several times.<\/p>\n Now, he\u2019ll look to keep that momentum rolling in front of a home crowd.<\/p>\n Instead of pulling from the deeper pool of established regional contenders, the promotion tapped Israel Adesanya\u2019s teammate, Schmid, for the short-notice opportunity. The 24-year-old \u201cHungarian Stallion\u201d enters with a 4-2 professional record (7-3 amateur), riding a three-fight win streak, most recently scoring a 15-second spinning backfist knockout.<\/p>\n Schmid has finished three of his four wins and has gone to the scorecards just once in his career.<\/p>\n Checkout one of his fights below:<\/p>\n Here is the finalized UFC Perth lineup (knock on wood):<\/p>\n Jack Della Maddalena vs. Carlos Prates
Beneil Dariush vs. Quillan Salkilld
Tim Elliott vs. Steve Erceg
Marwan Rahiki vs. Ollie Schmid
Shamil Gaziev vs. Brando Pericic
Tai Tuivasa vs. Louis Sutherland
Robert Bryczek vs. Cameron Rowston
Jacob Malkoun vs. Gerald Meerschaert
Kevin Christian vs. Junior Tafa
Colby Thicknesse vs. Vince Morales
Wes Schultz vs. Ben Johnston
Jonathan Micallef vs. Themba Gorimbo
Kody Steele vs. Dom Mar Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFreaky\u201d is still set to scrap \u201cDown Under.\u201d Must-watch Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight prospect, Marwan Rahiki, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,61604,1396,179146],"class_list":["post-637140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-fight-announcements","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637140","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=637140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}