{"id":170072,"date":"2025-09-26T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170072\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:55:07","slug":"oban-elliott-welsh-welterweights-ufc-bout-with-jonathan-micallef-in-perth-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170072\/","title":{"rendered":"Oban Elliott: Welsh welterweight’s UFC bout with Jonathan Micallef in Perth cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oban Elliott’s fight with Jonathan Micallef at the UFC Perth Fight Night in Australia on Saturday has been cancelled because of illness.<\/p>\n

The Welsh welterweight was due to make his first appearance in the octagon since he suffered his first defeat in UFC against Seok Hyeon Ko in June.<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week, 27-year-old Elliott said he was ready to take revenge after that loss<\/a>, telling BBC Sport Wales: “Imagine someone’s just stolen everything out of my house. I will turn the earth upside down to beat Micallef in Perth.”<\/p>\n

UFC announced the change to its 27 September bill on its website stating: “Due to illness, Oban Elliott has been removed from his welterweight bout with Jonathan Micallef.”<\/p>\n

They gave no further details of Elliot’s condition.<\/p>\n

‘The Welsh Gangster’ has 12 wins and three losses from his 15 professional bouts.<\/p>\n

Australian Micallef has an 8-1 professional record and is currently on a three-fight win streak.<\/p>\n

The bout at the RAC Arena in Perth was due to be on a card headed by light-heavyweight contenders Carlos Ulberg and Dominick Reyes.<\/p>\n

The light heavyweight bout between Junior Tafa and Ibo Aslan has also been removed from the card after Tafa sustained an injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oban Elliott’s fight with Jonathan Micallef at the UFC Perth Fight Night in Australia on Saturday has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-170072","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\/170072","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=170072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}