{"id":12589,"date":"2025-07-21T09:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12589\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:33:11","slug":"ufc-319-main-card-announced-with-1-big-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12589\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 319 main card announced, with 1 big exception"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UFC 319<\/a> main card has been revealed. Sort of.<\/p>\n

Next month, the UFC heads to Chicago for the first time in six years for a show headlined by the middleweight title fight between champion Dricus du Plessis<\/a> and Khamzat Chimaev<\/a>. With the event just a few weeks away, on Saturday night, during the UFC 318<\/a> broadcast, the world\u2019s leading MMA promotion unveiled the full main card for the next pay-per-view event, with one major exception.<\/p>\n

While the main event is the aforementioned du Plessis vs. Chimaev fight, per the UFC broadcast the co-main event is still not official, with the graphic showing \u201cTBD vs. TBD\u201d as holding that spot.<\/p>\n

There have been rumors recently that a previously booked featherweight bout between Movsar Evloev<\/a> and Aaron Pico<\/a> may be moved to the card, after it fell through for UFC Abu Dhabi<\/a> next Saturday, but those are still unconfirmed at this point.<\/p>\n

Also on the main card, Geoff Neal<\/a> and Carlos Prates<\/a> face off in a battle of ranked welterweights, former middleweight title challenger Jared Cannonier<\/a> takes on Michael \u201cVenom\u201d Page<\/a>, and opening the show, flyweights Tim Elliott<\/a> and Kai Asakura<\/a> throw down.<\/p>\n

UFC 319 takes place Aug. 16 at United Center in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC 319 main card has been revealed. Sort of. Next month, the UFC heads to Chicago for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[11871,1466,49,48,2323,11872,641,700,701,9391,638,82,640,702,2547],"class_list":["post-12589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-announced","tag-big","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-card","tag-exception","tag-fighting","tag-front-page","tag-latest-news","tag-main","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589","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=12589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}