The UFC is back in the APEX, but this time it\u2019s bringing a former world champion.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the UFC returns to its home arena for UFC Vegas 118, headlined by a welterweight matchup between former champion Belal Muhammad and rising contender Gabriel Bonfim. But in the crowded 170-pound title picture, what does a win really mean?<\/p>\n
Ahead of this weekend\u2019s action, MMA Fighting\u2019s Jed Meshew and Alexander K. Lee preview the main event matchup between Muhammad and Bonfim, and discuss what\u2019s at stake. Additionally, the MMA Fighting team breaks down the co-main event between Brendan Allen and Edmen Shahbazyan, discusses the tall-boy banger between Fares Ziam and Tom Nolan, dives into the best of the rest on the undercard, answers viewer questions, and more.<\/p>\n
Catch the UFC Vegas 118 preview show video above. An audio-only version of the show can be found below and on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, and wherever you find your favorite podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC is back in the APEX, but this time it\u2019s bringing a former world champion. On Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,45518,1591,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-717969","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","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717969","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=717969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}