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Brett OkamotoJul 23, 2025, 09:08 AM<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.<\/p>\n Former UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira<\/a> will attempt to reclaim the throne against Magomed Ankalaev<\/a> at UFC 320 on Oct. 4 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n UFC CEO Dana White announced the immediate 205-pound title rematch via social media on Tuesday. The UFC 320 pay-per-view event will take place inside T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n Pereira (12-3), a former multiweight kickboxing champion as well as UFC middleweight champion, turned into one of the sport’s biggest stars in 2024, but he surrendered his belt in a decision loss to Ankalaev (21-1-1) at UFC 313 in March.<\/p>\n The 38-year-old Pereira is considered one of the most decorated combat sports athletes of all time, and he was a near-consensus pick for 2024 Fighter of the Year with knockouts of Jamahal Hill<\/a>, JiY\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka<\/a> and Khalil Rountree Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n Ankalaev, of Dagestan, will likely be favored to beat him a second time, however. The 33-year-old is unbeaten in his past 13 appearances.<\/p>\n In addition to the main event, White announced a bantamweight title fight between Merab Dvalishvili<\/a> (20-4) and Cory Sandhagen<\/a> (18-5) as the co-main event. Dvalishvili will be seeking his third title defense this year, adding to victories over Umar Nurmagomedov<\/a> and Sean O’Malley<\/a>. Sandhagen will be vying for his first undisputed UFC championship. He lost to Petr Yan<\/a> in an interim title bout in 2021.<\/p>\n Light heavyweight contenders Proch\u00e1zka (31-5-1) and Rountree (14-6) will also clash on the UFC 320 main card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett OkamotoJul 23, 2025, 09:08 AM CloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-16663","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\/16663","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=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Magomed Ankalaev defeated Alex Pereira to win the UFC light heavyweight championship at UFC 313 in Las Vegas.\u00a0Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n