{"id":82745,"date":"2025-08-20T15:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82745\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:35:22","slug":"ufc-announces-deiveson-figueiredo-vs-montel-jackson-at-ufc-rio-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82745\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC announces Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Montel Jackson at UFC Rio in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Deiveson Figueiredo is back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Tuesday, the UFC announced the former flyweight champion will square off with surging contender Montel Jackson at the promotion\u2019s return to Rio de Janeiro on Oct. 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Figueiredo has not competed since losing to Cory Sandhagen at UFC Des Moines in May, when he tore the anterolateral ligament in his knee during the second round. Figueiredo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2025\/5\/15\/24431163\/deiveson-figueiredo-avoids-surgery-after-very-painful-knee-injury-anxious-to-fight-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">avoided surgery<\/a> and is now recovered and ready to step in as the promotion returns to his home country, but he does so with some pressure. After a hot start upon moving up to 135 pounds, \u201cFiggy Smalls\u201d is now on a two-fight losing streak, and a loss to Jackson could end his bantamweight title aspirations for good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Currently ranked No. 15 in the UFC\u2019s bantamweight rankings, Jackson is on an impressive run, notching six consecutive wins dating back to 2021. Most recently, Jackson won a unanimous decision over Daniel Marcos, also on the UFC Des Moines card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Rio is the promotion\u2019s first Fight Night event in the city since 2015, which was headlined by a bout between Demian Maia and Ryan LaFlare, and will take place at Farmasi Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deiveson Figueiredo is back. On Tuesday, the UFC announced the former flyweight champion will square off with surging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-82745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82745","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=82745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}