{"id":775151,"date":"2026-07-02T22:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775151\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:03:08","slug":"mateusz-gamrot-vs-quillan-salkilld-headlines-ufc-vegas-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775151\/","title":{"rendered":"Mateusz Gamrot Vs. Quillan Salkilld Headlines UFC Vegas 120"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Lightweights are headed to \u201cSin City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 8-ranked<\/a> Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Mateusz Gamrot welcomes red-hot Australian prospect Quillan Salkilld to the main event scene when the two headline UFC Vegas 120 on Sat., Aug. 8, 2026, inside the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The promotion announced the matchup on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Gamrot (26-4) will compete in his fourth UFC main event when he steps inside the Octagon next month. The Polish contender got himself back into the win column in his last outing at UFC 327, submitting Esteban Ribovics in the second round (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-327-live-stream-miami-prochazka-ulberg-mma\/435788\/watch-ufc-327-video-highlights-results-cbs-paramount-miami-gamrot-submission-ribovics-lopes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Prior to that, Gamrot was strangled by Charles Oliveira in the main event of UFC Rio (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-espn-plus-fight-pass-events-schedule-mma\/395158\/watch-video-highlights-ufc-rio-results-espn-brazil-oliveira-submission-gamrot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch it<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Still, \u201cGamer\u201d remains one of the toughest outs in the Lightweight division. He is currently 9-4 inside the promotion, with notable wins over Arman Tsarukyan, Rafael dos Anjos, Rafael Fiziev and Jalin Turner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">To close out his 2025 rookie year, Salkilld went viral for a brutal head kick knockout of Nasrat Haqparast (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-321-fight-card-aspinall-vs-gane-start-time-preview-live-results-abu-dhabi\/398279\/watch-ufc-321-video-highlights-results-espn-ppv-abu-dhabi-salkilld-knockout-head-kick-haqparast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch it<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 26-year-old is coming off the biggest win of his career, which also earned him a spot in the rankings, after knocking out Beneil Dariush at UFC Perth (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-paramount-plus-news-hub-fight-cards-schedule\/440475\/watch-ufc-perth-video-highlights-results-australia-paramount-salkilld-knockout-dariush\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Now, in his first UFC main event, Salkilld gets a massive step up against one of the most proven Lightweights in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Gamrot is trying to hold his place in the Top 10 and remind everyone he is still a problem at 155 pounds. Salkilld, meanwhile, has a chance to turn hype into a real title-contender conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">No other fights have been announced for UFC Vegas 120 just yet, but expect more news in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For now, the main event is locked in \u2014 and it is a very fun Lightweight test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightweights are headed to \u201cSin City.\u201d No. 8-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Mateusz Gamrot welcomes red-hot Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,61604,1396,179146,355513],"class_list":["post-775151","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-fight-announcements","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-mma-social-media-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775151","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=775151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}