{"id":843568,"date":"2026-08-04T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843568\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:02:09","slug":"rodriguez-silva-booked-as-main-event-for-noche-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843568\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodriguez-Silva booked as main event for Noche UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A featherweight bout between Yair Rodriguez and Jean Silva will serve as the main event for the Noche UFC card on Sept. 12 at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, a former interim featherweight champion, last appeared in the Octagon in April 2025 when he defeated Patricio Pitbull by decision at UFC 314. That victory snapped a two-fight losing streak that included a July 2023 title unification fight against Alexander Volkanovski for the featherweight belt.<\/p>\n<p>Silva is set to headline Noche UFC for the second straight year. Diego Lopes defeated him via TKO in the 2025 main event.<\/p>\n<p>Silva&#8217;s most recent UFC fight, which took place in January, ended in a victory over Arnold Allen by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the fourth annual Noche UFC event, which is held in celebration of Mexican Independence Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A featherweight bout between Yair Rodriguez and Jean Silva will serve as the main event for the Noche&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-843568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843568","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=843568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}