This is the live blog for Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Raoni Barcelos, the bantamweight main event for Saturday\u2019s UFC Vegas 121 fight card at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Rosas Jr., the youngest athlete in UFC history to earn a contract when he got a victory on Contender Series at just 17 years of age, competes in his first octagon main event. Now 21, Rosas enters the bout on a five-fight win streak, including a decision victory against Rob Font at UFC 326 in March. \u201cEl Ni\u00f1a Problema\u201d is 6-1 overall in the UFC with the lone loss coming to Christian Rodriguez at UFC 287 in April 2023.<\/p>\n
Barcelos is also entering his first UFC main event on a five-fight win streak, including handing Payton Talbott his lone octagon defeat. The 39-year-old\u2019s impressive run also includes wins over Montel Jackson, Ricky Simon and former champion Cody Garbrandt.<\/p>\n
Check out the UFC Vegas 121 live blog below.<\/p>\n
Well, that co-main event was so bad that Paul Felder just kinda went after Ailin Perez over it.<\/p>\n
Hopefully this main event will be better.<\/p>\n
Chito Vera in Raul Rosas\u2019 corner. That\u2019s a fun wrinkle. Both men looking ready. Barcelos looking like a weathered old man who will beat the heck out of any upstart young whippersnappers. Let\u2019s see if he can do just that to Rosas.<\/p>\n
Oh, the screen tells us that this is the largest age gap in a UFC fight ever, at 17 years. That\u2019s something interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the live blog for Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Raoni Barcelos, the bantamweight main event for Saturday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906881,"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-906880","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\/906880","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=906880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}