{"id":957542,"date":"2026-11-08T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/957542\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T23:12:13","slug":"matches-to-make-after-ufc-vegas-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/957542\/","title":{"rendered":"Matches To Make After UFC Vegas 124"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC Vegas 124<\/a> went down last night (Sat., Nov. 7, 2026) inside Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, which saw Johnny Walker score a knockout win over Waldo Cortes-Acosta in the main event (see it again here<\/a>). In the co-headlining act, Tatiana Saurez defeated Virna Jandiroba, while Elijah Smith knocked out Davey Grant in the very first round (highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Who He Should Face Next: Curtis Blaydes<\/p>\n

Walker has gotten off to a blistering start<\/a> to his run in the UFC heavyweight division by locking down back-to-back knockout wins<\/a> aid aims to keep it rolling in order to crack the Top 5 sooner, rather than later. As far as what could be a next good test for him, Blaydes is a man that could make sense. \u201cRazor\u201d was also last seen defeating \u201cSalsa Boy\u201d in his last fight, and is currently ranked No. 6<\/a>. The winner of this fight gets closer to a Top 5 spot and throws his name in the championship fight conversation.<\/p>\n

Who He Should Face Next: Mackenzie Dern title fight<\/p>\n

Suarez locked down her third straight win, which should be good enough to earn her a shot at Mackenzie Dern\u2019s strawweight title. It would make sense to book former division queen, Zhang Weili, in the title fight should she decide to return to the division after vacating the title in order to go for the flyweight strap, but \u201cMagnum\u201d has been nowhere to be seen since losing to Valentina Shevchenko over a year ago. That said, I still would like to see Suarez get the next title fight due to her recent run.<\/p>\n

Who He Should Face Next: Timothy Cuamba<\/p>\n

Smith made a huge statement after becoming the first man to ever knockout Davey Grant, finishing him in just 60 seconds<\/a>. Currently on a nine-fight win streak, 4-0 inside the Octagon, \u201cSwift\u201d could be looking for a fight against Cuamba, who is on a decent run himself. Cuamba is coming off a win over Louis Jourdain just last month, putting him at 3-1 in his last four fights.<\/p>\n

Who He Should Face Next: Vitor Petrino<\/p>\n

Fernando secured his second straight win inside the Octagon, six in a row overall, after defeating Billy Elekana via unanimous decision. The towering Brazilian has looked very sharp thus far, and has proven to have the skills to make some noise at 205 pounds. As far as what could be next for him, a fight against Petrino sounds nice. Petrino is currently on a four-fight win streak himself and was last seen defeating Serghei Spivac via unanimous decision two months ago.<\/p>\n

Who He Should Face Next: Alice Pereira<\/p>\n

Milosevic picked up her second win under the UFC banner by destroying<\/a> Priscila Cachoeira via second-round TKO. She has now won 10 straight, second under the UFC banner. I am really liking a fight against Pereira, next. Like Milosevic, Pereira has won two straight inside the Octagon and was last seen defeating Darya Zheleznyakova just last month, her second straight TKO win. This is a great fight between two up-and-coming bantamweights to see who can take a nice step up.<\/p>\n

Who He Should Face Next: Imanol Rodriguez<\/p>\n

Raposo (No. 12) inched a bit closer to a spot in the Top 10 after winning his third straight by defeating Marcos Degli via unanimous decision. I do like to see him tested again, and I think Rodriguez (No. 13) is the man to do just that. Rodriguez is 2-0 under the UFC banner and was last seen defeating Alden Coria at UFC 332 via technical knockout (see it again here<\/a>). If Raposo can stop Rodriguez\u2019s momentum before it picks up more steam it would give him a huge boost in confidence.<\/p>\n

For complete UFC Vegas 124 results and play-by-play, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 124 went down last night (Sat., Nov. 7, 2026) inside Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,6656],"class_list":["post-957542","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-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957542","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=957542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}