{"id":823278,"date":"2026-07-25T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823278\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:39:14","slug":"ufc-belgrade-gets-late-notice-replacement-from-brave-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823278\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Belgrade gets late-notice replacement from Brave champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There\u2019s been a late-notice switch-up to the UFC Belgrade card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Following an initial report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BigMarcel24\/status\/2080744595629957267\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marcel Dorff<\/a>, the UFC announced that that Josias Musasa is out of his scheduled bantamweight fight against Mark Vologdin at this weekend\u2019s event. In his stead, Brave CF bantamweight champion Borislav Nikolic steps in to fight Volgodin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Vologdin (12-4-2) is the rare Contender Series graduate who lost his fight, but impressed Dana White enough to earn a contract regardless, also earning an extra bonus from White for his 2025 Fight of the Year contender with Adrian Luna Martinetti. Vologdin made his promotional debut in April, going to a draw with John Castaneda at UFC Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Fighting out of Belgrade, Nikolic (16-2) has spent most of the past few years competing for the Brave CF organization, winning its bantamweight title last June and then defending the belt at Brave CF 100 in November. Nikolic is currently on a six-fight winning streak and will make his promotional debut in his home country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A welterweight matchup between Uros Medic and Daniel Rodriguez headlines UFC Belgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s been a late-notice switch-up to the UFC Belgrade card. Following an initial report from Marcel Dorff, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823279,"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-823278","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\/823278","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=823278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}