{"id":638863,"date":"2026-04-29T17:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638863\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:55:49","slug":"injury-forces-late-change-to-ufc-perth-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638863\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury forces late change to UFC Perth card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Perth has a new match-up just three days before the event in Australia after Jack Jenkins was forced off his featherweight bout with Marwan Rahiki due to an undisclosed injury. UFC announced Wednesday that Ollie Schmid has agreed to step in on less than a week\u2019s notice to face \u201cFreaky\u201d in a 145-pound clash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rahiki makes his second walk to the octagon looking to improve to 9-0 since turning pro in 2024, winning all his fights by stoppage with seven knockouts to his credit including second-round stoppages over Ananias Mulumba and Harry Hardwick at Dana White\u2019s Contender Series and UFC, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Schmid, 4-2 in the sport, received a last-minute call to the UFC and debuts on a three-fight winning streak, capped off by a 15-second spinning back fist knockout over Jeffrey Mesa this past March in his native New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Perth will take place at the RAC Arena and feature former welterweight champion Jack Della Maddalena battling Carlos Prates in the main event, with Beneil Dariush vs. Quillan Salkilld serving as the co-headliner.Marwan Rahiki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Perth has a new match-up just three days before the event in Australia after Jack Jenkins was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638864,"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-638863","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\/638863","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=638863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}