{"id":787852,"date":"2026-07-08T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/787852\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:08:09","slug":"one-time-title-challenger-booked-for-ufc-shanghai-co-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/787852\/","title":{"rendered":"One-time title challenger booked for UFC Shanghai co-main event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Yan Xiaonan has a tough test ahead of her if she wants to stay in the strawweight title picture as she takes on top contender Denise Gomes at UFC Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The UFC <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ufc_jp\/status\/2074705350431830292\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> Wednesday that Yan (19-5, 1 NC) is set to fight Gomes (12-3) in the co-main event of its upcoming card at Shanghai Indoor Stadium in China on Aug. 29. Umar Nurmagomedov fights Song Yadong in the headlining bantamweight bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This marks Yan\u2019s first appearance in over a year since losing a unanimous decision to Virna Jandiroba in April 2025. Following a 6-0 start to her UFC career, Yan has seen mixed results, going just 3-4 in her past seven appearances, including a title fight loss to Zhang Weili. Yan holds wins over current strawweight champion Mackenzie Dern and former champion Jessica Andrade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Gomes is one of the hottest fighters at 115 pounds, having won four straight fights. In her most recent outing this past November, she earned a unanimous decision win over Tecia Pennington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Also announced Wednesday for UFC Shanghai, top flyweight prospect Rei Tsuruya (11-1) takes on Kevin Borjas (11-5), who is coming off of an impressive upset victory over the previously undefeated Andre Lima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yan Xiaonan has a tough test ahead of her if she wants to stay in the strawweight title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787853,"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-787852","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\/787852","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=787852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}