{"id":29776,"date":"2025-07-28T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29776\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:30:09","slug":"new-ufc-on-espn-71-main-event-announced-after-amir-albazi-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29776\/","title":{"rendered":"New UFC on ESPN 71 main event announced after Amir Albazi injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC on ESPN 71<\/a> has lost its main event and gained a new one.<\/p>\n

With Amir Albazi out due to injury, his Aug. 2 headliner vs. Tatsuro Taira is off.<\/p>\n

Taira (16-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) will remain on the card against Hyun Sung Park as he looks to bounce back from his first career defeat, a split decision loss to Brandon Royval in October.<\/p>\n

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Park (10-3 MMA, 3-0 UFC) steps up into a massive opportunity to headline against one of the division’s top fighters in just his fourth UFC fight. He won Road to UFC in 2023 with a knockout of Seung Guk Choi. He then finished Shannon Ross with strikes and Carlos Hernandez with a rear-naked choke.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear the specifics of the injury to Albazi (17-2 MMA, 5-1 UFC), who hasn’t competed since a November 2024 loss to Brandon Moreno.<\/p>\n

With the change, the UFC on ESPN 71 lineup includes:<\/p>\n

Tatsuro Taira vs. Hyun Sung Park<\/p>\n

Chris Duncan vs. Mateusz Rebecki<\/p>\n

Elves Brener vs. Esteban Ribovics<\/p>\n

Nora Cornolle vs. Karol Rosa<\/p>\n

Neil Magny vs. Elizeu Zaleski<\/p>\n

Danny Silva vs. Kevin Vallejos<\/p>\n

Nick Klein vs. Andrey Pulayev<\/p>\n

Nathan Fletcher vs. Rinya Nakamura<\/p>\n

Tresean Gore vs. Rodolfo Vieira<\/p>\n

Felipe Bunes vs. Rafael Estevam<\/p>\n

Piera Rodriguez vs. Ketlen Souza<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC announces new main event five days before card after injury<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC on ESPN 71 has lost its main event and gained a new one. With Amir Albazi out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[23376,23380,49,48,23379,1161,641,23377,638,23378,23381,82,23375,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-29776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-amir-albazi","9":"tag-brandon-royval","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-carlos-hernandez","13":"tag-espn","14":"tag-fighting","15":"tag-hyun-sung-park","16":"tag-mma","17":"tag-road-to-ufc","18":"tag-seung-guk-choi","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-tatsuro-taira","21":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29776","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=29776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}