The UFC is building up is next card in Australia.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the promotion announced<\/a> the first four fights set for UFC Perth, which takes place at RAC Arena on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n The official bouts are as follows:<\/p>\n Navajo Stirling<\/a> vs. Rodolfo Bellato<\/a><\/p>\n Doo Ho Choi<\/a> vs. Daniel Santos<\/a><\/p>\n Colby Thicknesse<\/a> vs. Josias Musasa<\/a><\/p>\n Loma Lookboonme<\/a>e vs. Alexia Thainara<\/a><\/p>\n Defending home court will be the undefeated Stirling (7-0), a top light heavyweight prospect that hails from nearby New Zealand, and Australia\u2019s own Thicknesse (7-1).<\/p>\n Bellato (12-2-1, 1 NC) seeks redemption after a highly controversial bout against Paul Craig<\/a> this past June, in which Bellato appeared to be struck by an illegal upkick<\/a> and was unable to continue fighting. However, several fighters weren\u2019t convinced<\/a> by Bellato\u2019s reaction, and UFC analyst Anthony Smith<\/a> later accused Bellato of \u201ctrying to get a cheap win.\u201d<\/a> Bellato has refuted the accusations<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thicknesse faces Musasa (8-1) in a bantamweight bout. Both fighters seek their first win, with Thicknesse losing his UFC debut to Alexandre Topuria, the brother of lightweight champion Ilia Topuria<\/a>, and Musasa coming off of an upset loss to veteran Carlos Vera<\/a>.<\/p>\n Choi (16-4-1) is undefeated since returning in 2023 after being out of action for over three years. He fought Kyle Nelson<\/a> to a majority draw in his comeback fight, then scored back-to-back knockouts of Bill Algeo<\/a> and Nate Landwehr<\/a>. His featherweight opponent Daniel Santos (13-2) is also on a three-fight unbeaten streak, most recently scoring a unanimous decision win over Jeong Yeong Lee<\/a> this past May.<\/p>\n Lookboonmee (10-3) and Thainara (12-1) have been making waves at 115 pounds, with both looking to move closer to the top 10 of the division with a win. This past April, Lookboonmee defeated Istela Nunes<\/a> to extend her current winning streak to four, while Thainara made an impressive UFC debut by submitting Molly McCann<\/a> in March in what would turn out to be McCann\u2019s final fight.<\/p>\n A main event is yet to be announced for UFC Perth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC is building up is next card in Australia. On Monday, the promotion announced the first four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[14402,49,48,641,14403,7792,693,700,701,638,14404,695,82,696,640,702],"class_list":["post-16492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-announces","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-fights","tag-first","tag-for","tag-front-page","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-perth","tag-return","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492","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=16492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}