{"id":782738,"date":"2026-07-06T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/782738\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:54:11","slug":"ufc-329-gets-late-replacement-opponent-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/782738\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 329 gets late replacement opponent change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Farid Basharat finally has an opponent for this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">MMA Fighting confirmed that, on Saturday, Basharat will take on John Garza in a bantamweight contest on the prelims of UFC 329 in Las Vegas. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BigMarcel24\/status\/2073943876017012925\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marcel Dorff<\/a> was first to report the matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Basharat (15-0) was scheduled to fight rising prospect Ethyn Ewing at the event, but Ewing withdrew from the bout last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaTgsRRSOkE\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after suffering a \u201cdetrimental injury\u201d in training<\/a>. The UFC looked for a replacement and settled on Garza (6-1), who will be making his promotional debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Basharat is currently ranked No. 15 in the UFC\u2019s bantamweight media rankings, with six consecutive wins in the UFC since signing off the Contender Series in 2022. Most recently, Basharat took a split decision over fellow prospect 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\">At just 23 years old, Garza has only been a professional fighter for two years, but had a robust amateur career. After losing in his second pro fight, Garza has since been unbeaten, rattling off five wins, primarily in Fury FC, including his most recent victory, a second-round knockout over Josh Walker in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UFC 329 is headlined by a welterweight fight between Conor McGregor and Max Holloway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Damon Martin contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farid Basharat finally has an opponent for this weekend. MMA Fighting confirmed that, on Saturday, Basharat will take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782739,"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-782738","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\/782738","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=782738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}