{"id":124006,"date":"2025-09-06T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124006\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:11:10","slug":"exciting-matinee-in-france-sept-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124006\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Matinee In France Sept. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC Paris,<\/a> the fourth annual trip for the UFC to France, is here. Today (USA time,) the promotion touches down at Accor Arena for the first of three cards on the September schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\"\"<\/a>Live coverage begins at 12 noon ET\/ 9 am PT on ESPN+\u00a0<\/a>with the UFC Paris prelims<\/a>, followed by the main card<\/a> at 3 pm ET\/ 12 noon PT. After a slightly chaotic official weigh-in window yesterday, 13 of the planned 14 fights will take place today.<\/p>\n

Initially, Losene Keita<\/a> was to make his UFC debut today versus Patricio Pitbull<\/a> but the former missed the nontitle maximum for featherweight by 3 lbs at yesterday\u2019s weigh-in. Pitbull weighed-in on-target at 145 lbs yesterday.<\/p>\n

UFC Paris Main Event: No. 2 Contender Nassourdine Imavov vs. No. 7 Contender Caio Borralho<\/p>\n

At the top of the bill, the middleweights do battle for a crucial contest. No. 2 contender Nassourdine Imavov<\/a> (16-4, 1 NC MMA, 8-2, 1 NC UFC) meets No. 7 Caio Borralho<\/a> (17-1, 1 NC MMA, 7-0 UFC.) This is a five-round fight at five minutes per round.<\/p>\n

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\nUFC Paris Co-Main Event: No. 13 Contender Benoit Saint-Denis vs. No. 15 Contender Mauricio Ruffy<\/p>\n

Immediately beforehand, the co-main event of the evening happens at featherweight when No. 13 contender Benoit Saint-Denis<\/a> (14-3, 1 NC MMA, 6-3 UFC) collides with No. 15 contender Mauricio Ruffy<\/a> (12-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC.) This is a three-round fight at five minutes apiece.<\/p>\n

Rest of the Card<\/p>\n

Also today, you\u2019ll be seeing a light heavyweight bout between Modestas Bukauskas<\/a> (18-6 MMA, 6-4 UFC) and Paul Craig<\/a> (17-9-1, 1 NC MMA, 9-9-1, 1 NC UFC), a lightweight contest versing Bolaji Oki<\/a> (10-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) with Mason Jones<\/a> (16-2, 1 NC MMA, 2-2, 1 NC UFC), a welterweight affair pairing Axel Sola (10-0-1 MMA, UFC promotional debut) against Rhys McKee<\/a> (14-6-1 MMA, 1-4 UFC), and a fight moved up from the prelims versing William Gomis (14-3 MMA, 4-1 UFC) with Robert Ruchala (11-1 MMA, UFC promotional debut.)<\/p>\n

UFC Paris Results:<\/p>\n

Main Card: (Today, 3 pm ET\/ noon PT, ESPN+- United States Only)<\/p>\n

Main Event:\u00a0Nassourdine Imavov vs. Caio Borralho<\/p>\n

Co-Main Event:\u00a0Benoit Saint-Denis vs. Mauricio Ruffy<\/p>\n

Modestas Bukauskas vs. Paul Craig<\/p>\n

Bolaji Oki vs. Mason Jones<\/p>\n

Axel Sola vs. Rhys McKee<\/p>\n

William Gomis vs. Robert Ruchala<\/p>\n

Prelims: (Today, noon ET\/ 9 am PT, ESPN+- United States Only)<\/p>\n

Featured Prelim:\u00a0Oumar Sy vs. Brendson Ribeiro<\/p>\n

Co-Featured Prelim:\u00a0Marcin Tybura vs. Ante Delija<\/p>\n

Harry Hardwick vs. Kaue Fernandes<\/p>\n

Sam Patterson vs. Trey Waters<\/p>\n

Brad Tavares vs. Robert Bryczek<\/p>\n

Andreas Gustafsson vs. Rinat Fakhretdinov<\/p>\n

Shauna Bannon vs. Sam Hughes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Paris, the fourth annual trip for the UFC to France, is here. Today (USA time,) the promotion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-124006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}