{"id":896722,"date":"2026-09-18T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896722\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:18:10","slug":"report-allen-out-of-ufc-333-bout-vs-pico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896722\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Allen out of UFC 333 bout vs. Pico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Featherweight contender Arnold Allen has withdrawn from his UFC 333 fight against Aaron Pico, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/510777\/arnold-allen-scratched-from-ufc-333-fight-with-aaron-pico\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting&#8217;s Mike Heck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Losene Keita has reportedly agreed to face Pico at the Oct. 24 event in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Allen has been rehabbing from past treatments and won&#8217;t be ready to compete next month, Heck adds. This was a possibility before the fight was booked, and Allen hopes to return to the Octagon before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Pico is coming off his first UFC win, a unanimous decision over Patricio &#8220;Pitbull&#8221; Freire at UFC 327 in April. The former Bellator star suffered a knockout loss to Lerone Murphy in his debut in August 2025 and is 1-1 in the promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Keita, a former Oktagon two-division champion, is also making his third UFC appearance after going 1-1 in his first two outings. Most recently, he scored a first-round knockout win over Muhammad Naimov at UFC Paris earlier in September.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 333 will be headlined by a featherweight title bout between champion Alexander Volkanovski and Movsar Evloev. It&#8217;ll also feature a trilogy fight between bantamweight champion Petr Yan and former champ Merab Dvalishvili.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Featherweight contender Arnold Allen has withdrawn from his UFC 333 fight against Aaron Pico, sources told MMA Fighting&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-896722","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\/896722","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=896722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}