{"id":90211,"date":"2025-08-23T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90211\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:47:07","slug":"ufc-320-adds-josh-emmett-vs-youssef-zalal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90211\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 320 adds Josh Emmett vs. Youssef Zalal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ranked featherweights will collide at UFC 320<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Josh Emmett and Youssef Zalal will throw down at the Oct. 4 pay-per-view event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the promotion announced Saturday.<\/p>\n

Emmett (19-5 MMA, 10-5 UFC) has dropped three of his four most recent fights, though the losses have come against Yair Rodriguez, Ilia Topuria, and Lerone Murphy. The lone win in the stretch was a violent knockout of Bryce Mitchell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Zalal (17-5-1 MMA, 7-3-1 UFC) has won seven MMA bouts in a row and is 4-0 since he returned to the promotion in early 2024. Wins in his second UFC stint include Billy Quarantillo, Jarno Errens, Jack Shore, and Calvin Kattar thus far.<\/p>\n

With the addition, the UFC 320 lineup includes:<\/p>\n

Champion Magomed Anakalaev vs. Alex Pereira \u2013 for light heavyweight title<\/p>\n

Champion Merab Dvalishvili vs. Cory Sandhagen \u2013 for bantamweight title<\/p>\n

Jiri Prochazka vs. Khalil Rountree<\/p>\n

Josh Emmett vs. Youssef Zalal<\/p>\n

Abus Magomedov vs. Joe Pyfer<\/p>\n

Patchy Mix vs. Jakub Wiklacz<\/p>\n

Macy Chiasson vs. Yana Santos<\/p>\n

Andre Muniz vs. Edmen Shahbazyan<\/p>\n

Ozzy Diaz vs. Oteba Gautier<\/p>\n

Farid Basharat vs. Chris Gutierrez<\/p>\n

Veronica Hardy vs. Brogan Walker<\/p>\n

Ramiz Brahimaj vs. Austin Vanderford<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC 320 adds new main card fight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ranked featherweights will collide at UFC 320. Josh Emmett and Youssef Zalal will throw down at the Oct.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[11159,64,63,67103,3168,786,17499,1180,39840,785,85,787,11636,67102],"class_list":["post-90211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alex-pereira","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-billy-quarantillo","tag-calvin-kattar","tag-fighting","tag-ilia-topuria","tag-josh-emmett","tag-lerone-murphy","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-yair-rodriguez","tag-youssef-zalal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90211","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=90211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}