{"id":767508,"date":"2026-06-29T09:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767508\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:40:16","slug":"mansur-abdul-malik-headlines-four-additions-to-ufc-330-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767508\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansur Abdul-Malik headlines four additions to UFC 330 card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/middleweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">middleweight<\/a> Mansur Abdul-Malik will fight Dustin Stoltzfus at UFC 330 in Philadelphia, as the UFC announced four new matchups Friday for the Aug. 15 card headlined by Islam Makhachev&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/welterweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welterweight<\/a> title defense against Ian Machado Garry.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul-Malik, 9-1-1, looks to bounce back from his first career defeat when he meets veteran Stoltzfus, who brings a 16-8 record into the 185-pound contest. MMA Fighting first reported the additions to the card earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Three veteran welterweights move up or seek momentum<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/vicente-luque\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vicente Luque<\/a> will chase a second straight win at <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/middleweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">middleweight<\/a> when he faces Tresean Gore. Luque, a longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/welterweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welterweight<\/a> contender at 24-12-1, has shifted his focus to the heavier division. Geoff Neal and Chidi Njokuani, two 170-pound veterans, square off in a striker&#8217;s matchup \u2014 Neal stands 16-8, Njokuani 25-12 with one no contest.<\/p>\n<p>A previously reported welterweight bout between Myktybek Orolbai and Jeremiah Wells also made the official lineup. Orolbai enters 16-2-1, Wells 13-4-1.<\/p>\n<p>Makhachev chases a record 17th consecutive UFC victory when he defends his 170-pound belt for the first time against Garry. <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/strawweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strawweight<\/a> champion Mackenzie Dern takes on Gillian Robertson in the co-main event, with Edson Barboza vs. Esteban Ribovics and Erin Blanchfield vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius also on the bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-credit\">Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Islam_Makhachev_and_Sergey_Melikov_2025_(cropped).jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\" rel=\"license nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY 3.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sources-heading\">Original reporting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rising middleweight Mansur Abdul-Malik will fight Dustin Stoltzfus at UFC 330 in Philadelphia, as the UFC announced four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-767508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767508","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=767508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}