{"id":768385,"date":"2026-06-29T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768385\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:29:09","slug":"ufc-329-injury-scratches-fighter-days-before-mcgregor-vs-holloway-2-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768385\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 329: Injury scratches fighter days before McGregor vs. Holloway 2 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The UFC\u2019s next numbered event, scheduled for July 11 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, lost a fighter as surging bantamweight contender Ethyn Ewing has been removed from the contest due to an undisclosed injury, multiple people with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BestFightPicks\/status\/2071654082171769250\" rel=\"nofollow\">Best Fight Picks<\/a> first confirmed the news on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UFC officials are actively seeking a replacement to face Basharat at the promotion\u2019s International Fight Week event. Basharat is 15-0 as a pro, including a 6-0 start to his UFC run. In his most recent bout, the 28-year-old got the nod with a razor-close split decision over Jean Matsumoto at UFC Vegas 113 in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ewing, a former A1 Combat champion, is 2-0 inside the octagon, including a big upset win on short notice against Malcolm Wellmaker at UFC 322 this past November in his UFC debut. Ewing followed that up with a nasty liver kick knockout with over Rafael Estevam at April\u2019s UFC Vegas 115 event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UFC 329 is headlined by the long-awaited return of former two-division champ Conor McGregor as he faces past featherweight and BMF champ Max Holloway in a rematch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Damon Martin conributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC\u2019s next numbered event, scheduled for July 11 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, lost a fighter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-768385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768385","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=768385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}