{"id":939865,"date":"2026-10-25T01:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T01:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939865\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T01:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T01:18:25","slug":"joshua-van-vs-manel-kape-set-for-ufc-336","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939865\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Van vs. Manel Kape set for UFC 336"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Joshua Van is getting back to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The UFC flyweight champion is set to defend his title against Manel Kape at the upcoming UFC 336 card scheduled on Jan 30 from the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The news was announced during the UFC 333 broadcast on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Carlos Prates and Michael Morales will square off for interim welterweight title fight in the co-main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 25-year-old flyweight champion has stormed the scene after he accepted a short notice fight against Brandon Royval and put on a Fight of the Year worthy performance. Van eventually captured the flyweight title after then champion Alexandre Pantoja suffered a freak injury just seconds into their fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Van went onto defend the belt with a win over Tatsuro Taira before vanquishing Pantoja in their rematch to solidify his reign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Meanwhile, Kape has been a constant contender since arriving in the UFC but he\u2019s recently gone on a five-fight win streak with finishes in each contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Most recently, Kape dispatched Kyoji Horiguchi with a a third-round knockout to solidify his position as the No. 1 contender and now he gets his title shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua Van is getting back to work. The UFC flyweight champion is set to defend his title against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939866,"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-939865","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\/939865","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=939865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}