{"id":656683,"date":"2026-05-08T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656683\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:17:09","slug":"no-bets-barred-can-sean-strickland-do-it-again-and-upset-khamzat-chimaev-at-ufc-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656683\/","title":{"rendered":"No Bets Barred: Can Sean Strickland do it again and upset Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 328?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Khamzat Chimaev is set to make the first defense of his UFC middleweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This Saturday, the UFC returns to Newark, N.J., for UFC 328, headlined by a pair of major title fights. In the main event, Khamzat Chimaev defends his newly won middleweight title against former champion Sean Strickland, and in the co-main event, new flyweight champion Joshua Van makes the first defense if his belt against Tatsuro Taira. Will both new champions retain their titles or will new clood continue to reign? No Bets Barred is here to tell you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This week, host Jed Meshew is joined by Billy Ward of The Action Network to dive into all things UFC 328. Topics discussed include if Strickland has a chance to pull off another upset, whether the odds are right in Van vs. Taira, which underdogs are live throughout the rest of the card, The Climb, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tune in for episode 155 of No Bets Barred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">New episodes of the No Bets Barred podcast drop every Wednesday and are available on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?xcust=__sb0506awD__485246____r______________google.com&amp;id=66960X1516590&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/id320642139&amp;referrer=sbnation.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/27Z2RR39rjGrRcV1DiQ40J?si=5ZS0Lje7QbWITUd60cOb8g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, or wherever else you find your favorite podcasts. The latest episode can be heard below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev is set to make the first defense of his UFC middleweight title. This Saturday, the UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,45518,1591,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-656683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mmaf-podcast-network","tag-podcasts","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656683","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=656683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}