{"id":95905,"date":"2025-08-26T00:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/95905\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:32:07","slug":"ufc-fight-night-260-in-perth-adds-neil-magny-vs-jake-matthews-two-other-aussie-bouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/95905\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fight Night 260 in Perth adds Neil Magny vs. Jake Matthews, two other Aussie bouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC&#8217;s upcoming trip to Perth continues to take shape with the official addition of multiple fights, including a welterweight clash between Neil Magny and Jake Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>UFC Fight Night 260 takes place Sept. 27 at RAC Arena, and is headlined by a light heavyweight showdown between Dominick Reyes and Carlos Ulberg. Monday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ufc\/status\/1960100287668224296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:promotion announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">promotion announced<\/a> three new bouts for the card.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Magny (30-13 MMA, 23-12 UFC), whose name is all over the UFC&#8217;s welterweight record books, will step into his second fight of 2025 following <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-espn-71-video-neil-021539754.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:a second-round finish;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a second-round finish<\/a> of Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos in August to return to the win column. The 38-year-old veteran is the wins leader in the UFC&#8217;s welterweight division, as well as having the most fights, decision wins, total fight time, total strikes, and significant strikes in 170-pound history.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews (22-7 MMA, 15-7 UFC), who is riding a three-fight winning streak, is also coming off a highlight finish. In July, Matthews tapped Chidi Njokuani <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-espn-70-video-jake-003613386.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:in just 69 seconds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in just 69 seconds<\/a> with a neck crank. A winner of four of his last five, Australia&#8217;s Matthews gets to fight on home soil as he eyes an entry into the UFC&#8217;s top 15.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion also announced two other fights featuring Australian fighters.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Oban Elliott (12-3 MMA, 3-1 UFC) takes on Australia&#8217;s Jonathan Micallef (8-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) at welterweight, and Australia&#8217;s Jack Jenkins (13-4 MMA, 3-2 UFC) faces American Ramon Taveras (10-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) in a featherweight bout.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With the additions, the current UFC Fight Night 260 lineup includes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dominick Reyes vs. Carlos Ulberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Neil Magny vs. Jake Matthews<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rodolfo Bellato vs. Navajo Stirling<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oban Elliott vs. Jonathan Micallef<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Loma Lookboonmee vs. Alexia Thainara<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Josias Musasa vs. Colby Thicknesse<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jack Jenkins vs. Ramon Taveras<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jimmy Crute vs. Ivan Erslan<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Andre Petroski vs. Cam Rowston<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Daniel Santos vs. opponent TBA<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/25\/ufc-perth-neil-magny-vs-jake-matthews-official-announcements\/85824262007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Perth adds Neil Magny vs. Jake Matthews, two other Aussie bouts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Perth adds Neil Magny vs. Jake Matthews, two other Aussie bouts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC&#8217;s upcoming trip to Perth continues to take shape with the official addition of multiple fights, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,29449,29448,35637,786,70639,70638,785,35639,85,787,9995],"class_list":{"0":"post-95905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-carlos-ulberg","11":"tag-dominick-reyes","12":"tag-elizeu-zaleski-dos-santos","13":"tag-fighting","14":"tag-jack-jenkins","15":"tag-jake-matthews","16":"tag-mma","17":"tag-neil-magny","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-ufc","20":"tag-welterweight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95905","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=95905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}