{"id":750095,"date":"2026-06-21T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750095\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:00:19","slug":"ufc-vegas-119-highlights-kape-melts-horiguchi-with-comeback-tko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750095\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 119 Highlights! Kape Melts Horiguchi With Comeback TKO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Manel Kape seemingly punched his ticket to a UFC flyweight title shot earlier tonight (Sat., June 20, 2026) at UFC Vegas 119 LIVE on Paramount+ from inside UFC Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, stopping former foe Kyoji Horiguchi with a main event TKO comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In case you didn\u2019t know, Horiguchi owned a win over Kape dating back to 2017 under the RIZIN banner. That was a wild matchup that lasted late into the third round before Horiguchi stopped \u201cStarboy\u201d with an arm-triangle choke. Saturday was Kape\u2019s chance for revenge and his final stamp of approval to get his first-ever UFC title shot. If Horiguchi could play spoiler maybe he could score a shot at the winner of Joshua Van vs. Alexandre Pantoja later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After a fun back-and-forth first two rounds that favored Horiguchi\u2019s pace and output, Kape found a window of opportunity to steal the show. The talented striker waited for his moment to pounce and uncorked a perfectly-timed right hand that landed flush and sent Horiguchi into a tizzy. Kape followed up with heavy ground-and-pound shots before referee Herb Dean moved in for the TKO stoppage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Check out the video highlights below and let us know if this is enough for Kape to get his shot at UFC gold!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more UFC Vegas 119 results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/e\/450428\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manel Kape seemingly punched his ticket to a UFC flyweight title shot earlier tonight (Sat., June 20, 2026)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,46234,6656],"class_list":["post-750095","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-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-videos","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750095","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=750095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}