{"id":158861,"date":"2025-09-21T08:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158861\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T08:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:46:12","slug":"ufc-fight-night-event-hit-with-main-event-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158861\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fight Night Event Hit With Main Event Shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A heavyweight matchup between Waldo Cortes-Acosta and Ante Delija will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/389137\/hard-hitting-heavyweight-newcomer-scores-ufc-main-event-in-just-second-appearance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no longer headline<\/a> UFC\u2019s upcoming Fight Night event on Nov. 1 from inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, although the two fighters will still compete on the card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Instead, rising featherweight finishers Steve Garcia and David Onama have been penciled in to handle main event duties. MMA reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bigmarcel24\/status\/1969084083696263582?s=46&amp;t=hr0uwZ3RZ6yDNGSvgSz85g\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marcel Dorff<\/a> leaked the news on Friday, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMAmania.com<\/a> confirmed the \u201cFight Night\u201d shakeup independently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This matchup makes a little more sense considering Cortes-Acosta is coming off a loss in his last Octagon outing and Delija just made his UFC debut earlier this month. A featherweight scrap between Garcia and Onama may not be the best matchup on paper, but it\u2019s a walking \u201cFight of the Night\u201d candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garcia, 33, has been one of the hottest fighters in UFC\u2019s jam-packed featherweight division over the past three years. During that span, Garcia has turned in a 5-0 record at 145 pounds while adding in a victory at lightweight as well. \u201cMean Machine\u201d has proven to be one of the most heavy-handed strikers in the division and with one more win could catapult himself into the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Onama, 31, is coming off a huge performance against former featherweight contender Giga Chikadze this past April to push his current UFC win streak to four. The well-rounded Ugandan fighter has produced an overall UFC record of 6-2 since his debut back in 2021 and could also crack the featherweight top 10 with a win over Garcia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What do you think, Maniacs? Do you like this main event clash more than Cortes-Acosta vs. Delija?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heavyweight matchup between Waldo Cortes-Acosta and Ante Delija will no longer headline UFC\u2019s upcoming Fight Night event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,4454],"class_list":["post-158861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158861","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=158861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}