{"id":831543,"date":"2026-07-29T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831543\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:39:09","slug":"michael-morales-headed-to-ufc-330-for-islam-vs-garry-they-brought-me-in-as-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831543\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Morales headed to UFC 330 for Islam vs. Garry \u2014 \u2018They brought me in as backup\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThey told me I had to wait for the fight between Ian and Islam, and then I\u2019d be next,\u201d Morales told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GDcFQfT5SdA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cRight now, they\u2019ve brought me in as the backup in case one of the two misses weight or isn\u2019t able to fight. If that happens, I\u2019ll step in. Either this title fight happens, or I wait one more fight and then I fight for the title. There\u2019s nothing else left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Morales (19-0) has been nothing short of unstoppable throughout his combat sports career and has blown through the welterweight ranks with little-to-no resistance. The 27-year-old Ecuadorian is coming off three straight knockouts, having recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-322-jack-della-vs-islam-makhachev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/403185\/ufc-322-results-massive-michael-morales-mauls-sean-brady-in-nasty-knockout-win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disposed of Sean Brady at UFC 322<\/a> last fall in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">To see who else is fighting at UFC 330 on Aug. 15 click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/451594\/ufc-330-fight-card-start-time-date-location-islam-makhachev-ian-machado-garry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey told me I had to wait for the fight between Ian and Islam, and then I\u2019d be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,1647],"class_list":["post-831543","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-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831543","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=831543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}