{"id":929249,"date":"2026-10-15T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929249\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:36:12","slug":"maycee-barber-vs-carli-judice-added-to-ufc-335","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929249\/","title":{"rendered":"Maycee Barber vs. Carli Judice added to UFC 335"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC 335, the promotion\u2019s last PLE of 2026, continues to fill out with some interesting fights. The main and co-main at that event are fascinating<\/a>, with Charles Oliveira meeting Diego Lopes for the BMF belt and Sergei Pavlovich attempting to possibly retire Alex Pereira.<\/p>\n

According to Marcel Dorff, Maycee Barber and Carli Judice are set to tangle on December 12, too.<\/p>\n

This is an interesting, potentially changing of the guard, fight at women\u2019s flyweight. And it might be a sign that the UFC thinks Barber has, in the words of Din Thomas, gone \u201cas far as she can go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barber was somewhat of a UFC darling when she hit the scene in 2018 and was projected to be a future title challenger, despite being only 20 at the time. She\u2019s managed to record a 10-3 record since then. However, she\u2019s also been a classic case of someone taking one step forward, two steps back.<\/p>\n

Her loss to Roxanne Modafferi<\/a> as a -850 favorite, her long hiatus over a mystery illness<\/a>, her no-show<\/a> in the APEX for the Erin Blanchfield fight and the epic first round KO loss to Grasso have all made her ascension to title contender status seem very doubtful.<\/p>\n

And now, at 28, she gets matched up with someone slightly younger, on a win streak, who is ranked five spots below her. Feels like a make-or-break moment for Maycee.<\/p>\n

Judice must be relishing the opportunity to leapfrog Barber into the top ten. She\u2019s on one heck of a run right now. After two split decisions to start her UFC career, she\u2019s won four in a row and displayed some of the sharpest striking in the division. She\u2019s scored three finishes in that run, including a head kick<\/a>, knee to the liver<\/a> and body kick.<\/p>\n

Barber vs. Judice wasn\u2019t the only UFC 335 fight announced yesterday. We also learned that Junior Tafa would be fighting Quentin Pasley. And that\u2019s all you need to know about that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 335, the promotion\u2019s last PLE of 2026, continues to fill out with some interesting fights. The main…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-929249","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-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929249","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=929249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}