{"id":872516,"date":"2026-08-29T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872516\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:42:10","slug":"ufc-shanghai-live-results-and-play-by-play-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872516\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Shanghai live results and play-by-play analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is live THIS MORNING (Sat., Aug. 29, 2026) with UFC Shanghai<\/a>, streaming live online via Paramount+<\/a>. The event happens at Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China. The main event is Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Song Yadong in the Bantamweight division.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a home soil hero on this card, too. It\u2019s Song Yadong. But it will be an upset if he manages to pull off the win against the -600 Umar Nurmagomedov. Nurmagomedov will be looking for a suffocating victory to get himself back in the title picture against fellow countryman Petr Yan.<\/p>\n

The co-main event is Yan Xiaonan vs. Denise Gomes. Former title challenger Yan is climbing past her mid-thirties, but she will hope she has enough left in the tank to beat the rising Brazilian talent. Gomes will have revenge on her mind in this fight. Yan once knocked out Gomes\u2019 mentor Jessica Andrade.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the main card is Aoriqileng vs. Kai Asakura, Alex Perez vs. Sumudaerji, Liu Ce vs. Levi Rodrigues Jr. and Bilal Hasan vs. Nilson Rojas. A number of those fights seem engineered to produce viral moments.<\/p>\n

The features \u2018Prelim\u2019 is Namsrai Batbayar vs. Andre Lima at Flyweight. Lima missed weight for this one<\/a>. The undercard also has Rei Tsuruya vs. Kevin Borjas, Jack Jenkins vs. Sean Woodson, Xiao Long vs. Francesco Nuzzi, Lawrence Lui vs. Hector Santiago, Jingnan Xiong vs. Julia Polastri and Ding Meng vs. Cam Nelson.<\/p>\n

UFC Shanghai Start Date and Time<\/p>\n

We are operating at prime local time today. That means it is an extremely early wake up for me and anyone else on the east coast. Check out these special air times below:<\/p>\n

The live blog here starts rolling below at 3 a.m. ET. Come in and say hi!<\/p>\n

UFC SHANGHAI QUICK RESULTS<\/p>\n

UFC SHANGHAI PLAY-BY-PLAY UPDATES<\/p>\n

Jingnan Xiong vs. Julia Polastri: Polastri gave us one of the nastiest women\u2019s MMA KOs we\u2019ve seen in UFC. She threw a two punch combo and then followed that with a head kick. Xiong was leaning back from the punches and moved her head right into the kick. She was out before she hit the ground. Polastri would have won a POTN bonus had she made weight for this.<\/p>\n

Official decision: Julia Polastri def. Jingnan Xiong by KO (headkick), round 1 (3:06)<\/p>\n

Ding Meng vs. Cam Nelson: Nelson made this a boring fight and that was bad for Ding and the crowd in Shanghai. Ding had the striking advantage, but his total lack of takedown defense ruined this fight for him. Nelson took him down with ease in the first two rounds. Nelson got tired in the third, but Ding wasn\u2019t able to take advantage of that.<\/p>\n

Official decision: Cam Nelson def. Ding Meng by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is live THIS MORNING (Sat., Aug. 29, 2026) with UFC Shanghai, streaming live online…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,46671,1396,179146,6656],"class_list":["post-872516","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-live-stream","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872516","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=872516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}