{"id":751978,"date":"2026-06-22T02:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751978\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T02:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:22:16","slug":"matches-to-make-after-ufc-vegas-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751978\/","title":{"rendered":"Matches To Make After UFC Vegas 119"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC Vegas 119<\/a> went down last night (Sat., June 20, 2026) inside Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, which saw Manel Kape stop Kyoji Horiguchi in impressive fashion in the third round of their Flyweight fight (see it again here<\/a>). In the co-headlining act, Navajo Stirling knocked out Ion Cutelaba in their Light Heavyweight affair.<\/p>\n

Winner: Manel Kape
Who He Should Face Next: Title shot<\/p>\n

Now that Kape got his revenge against Horiguchi for a loss nine years ago, he can potentially look ahead to a title shot. He is currently ranked No. 2 in the division and on a four-fight win streak. For \u201cStarboy,\u201d the only thing that is left to do is wait to see if the matchmakers felt his win was impressive enough to leapfrog Alexandre Pantoja, who lost the title to Joshua Van due to an injury (more on that here<\/a>). That said, there is no telling when Pantoja can get back on the saddle, so Kape\u2019s chances of being next look good at the moment.<\/p>\n

Winner: Navajo Stirling
Who He Should Face Next: Modestas Bukauskas<\/p>\n

Stirling improved to 10-0, 5-0 UFC, thanks to his big win over Cutelaba, which means he is nearing his time to get into the Top 15. As for what could be next for him, perhaps a showdown against Bukauskas could be in order. At first glance it may seem odd since Bukauskas doesn\u2019t exactly carry big weight with his name, but he is on a nice run, going 5-1 in his last six bouts, with a win over Cutelaba along the way. He was last seen defeating Christian Edwards last month.<\/p>\n

Winner: Christian Rodriguez
Who He Should Face Next: Joanderson Brito<\/p>\n

Rodriguez snapped his two-fight losing streak with a big win over Hyder Amil. The 28 year-old is 6-4 inside the Octagon, so a win over someone as experienced like Brito could be a big push he needs to up his stock. Brito was last seen defeating Jordan Leavitt a few weeks ago, his second straight win.<\/p>\n

Winner: Murtazali Magomedov
Who He Should Face Next: Sean Woodson<\/p>\n

Magomedov made a splash in his UFC debut, racking up a nice $100,000 post-fight bonus check<\/a> following his big win over Melsik Baghadasaryan via twister<\/a>, and improved to 11-0 as a pro. For his sophomore effort, a fight against Woodson might be a good step. Woodson is coming off a tough loss at the hands of Dan Ige, which snapped his seven-fight unbeaten streak.<\/p>\n

Winner: Vinicius Oliveira
Who He Should Face Next: Giga Chikadze<\/p>\n

Oliveira was initially set to face Chikadze at this event, which to me was a nice step up for him. After Chikadze had to bow out<\/a>, Andre Fili stepped in and Oliveira took care of him by knocking him out in the second round<\/a>. I still would like to see matchmakers re-book Chikadze against Oliveira since it was a nice, fun matchup to begin with. And it would serve as a great measuring stick for the young Brazilian prospect.<\/p>\n

FOR MORE UFC VEGAS 119 RESULTS, COVERAGE AND HIGHLIGHTS CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 119 went down last night (Sat., June 20, 2026) inside Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,179146,6656],"class_list":["post-751978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751978","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=751978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}