{"id":73178,"date":"2025-08-16T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73178\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:27:08","slug":"patricio-pitbull-set-to-welcome-top-prospect-at-ufc-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73178\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricio Pitbull set to welcome top prospect at UFC Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Patricio Pitbull will fly to Europe on Sept. 6 to face off with highly-touted prospect Losene Keita in a featherweight contest on the UFC Paris card, MMA Fighting has confirmed following a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MMA__Matchmaker\/status\/1956525919679529435\" rel=\"nofollow\">Maitres Fumiers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Paris will take place at the Accor Arena in Paris and feature Nassourdine Imavov vs. Caio Borralho in the main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Keita (16-1) makes his first walk to the UFC after becoming a two-division champion in Czech-based promotion Oktagon, scoring three knockouts in his current five-fight winning streak at featherweight and lightweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pitbull (37-8) is also a former two-division MMA champion, claiming the 145 and 155-pound belts in Bellator. The most accomplished champion in Bellator history recently beat Dan Ige via decision after a debut loss to Yair Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Aside from that match-up and the main event attraction, UFC Paris will include three other bouts between Brazilians and Europeans: Mauricio Ruffy vs. Benoit Saint Denis, Brendson Ribeiro vs. Oumar Sy, and Kaue Fernandes vs. Fares Ziam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patricio Pitbull will fly to Europe on Sept. 6 to face off with highly-touted prospect Losene Keita in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-73178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73178","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=73178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}