{"id":904264,"date":"2026-09-24T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904264\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T22:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:54:10","slug":"brandon-moreno-vs-charles-johnson-in-the-works-for-ufc-335","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904264\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Moreno vs. Charles Johnson in the works for UFC 335"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former flyweight champion Brandon Moreno has his next fight booked as he\u2019s expected to clash with Charles Johnson at UFC 335, which takes place on Dec. 12 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans confirmed the news to MMA Fighting\u2019s Guilherme Cruz and Mike Heck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Coming off two-straight losses, Moreno finally got back on track with a win over Joseph Morales at Noche UFC 3 in September. Following that win, Moreno expressed interest in getting one more fight in before the year was over and now it appears he\u2019s getting his wish<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As for Johnson, the 35-year-old veteran has bounced back and forth between wins and losses in his past six fights, which includes wins over Lone\u2019er Kavanagh, Bruno Silva, and Eduardo Chapolin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Now Johnson attempts to take out a former champion in Moreno as they clash in the final major card for the UFC in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former flyweight champion Brandon Moreno has his next fight booked as he\u2019s expected to clash with Charles Johnson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-904264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904264","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=904264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}