Gable Steveson wants all the \u201cSmoke.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2020 Olympic gold medalist<\/a> will make his second appearance under the UFC banner when he collides with the unheralded Sean Sharaf as part of the upcoming UFC 331 event on Paramount+<\/a>, recently made official for Sat., Sept. 19, 2026 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n Steveson is 4-0 in MMA with four straight knockouts<\/a> and will not be tested for his sophomore effort. No disrespect to Sharaf (4-2), but \u201cSmoke\u201d has only competed twice since he signed with UFC in late 2024 and got knocked out both times, first by Junior Tafa (UFC Vegas 98<\/a>) and then again by Steven Asplund (UFC Vegas 112<\/a>).<\/p>\n UFC 331 will also feature the previously-reported rematch<\/a> between Brian Ortega and Renato Moicano. Elsewhere on the card, Arman Tsarukyan and Charles Oliveira are expected to run it back<\/a>. In addition, Ryan Gandra and Osman Diaz are scheduled to hook \u2018em up in middleweight action.<\/p>\n Expect more UFC 331 fight card announcements in the coming weeks, if not days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gable Steveson wants all the \u201cSmoke.\u201d The 2020 Olympic gold medalist will make his second appearance under the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,1647],"class_list":["post-844545","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-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844545","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=844545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}