{"id":306855,"date":"2025-11-25T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306855\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:00:08","slug":"arnold-allen-meets-jean-silva-in-ufc-324-featherweight-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306855\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Allen meets Jean Silva in UFC 324 Featherweight bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A fun Featherweight fight has been added to the first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) card of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Unfortunately, Allen (20-3) did not compete this year; however, he snapped his two-fight losing streak last year at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-304-results-start-time-edwards-vs-belal-2-manchester-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 304<\/a>, earning a unanimous decision win over Giga Chikadze. Before returning to the win column, \u201cAlmighty\u201d dropped a razor-close fight to Movsar Evloev and then a unanimous decision to Max Holloway in his second main event appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He\u2019ll now look to defend his Top 10 ranking against one of the division\u2019s most dangerous rising contenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Silva (16-3) aims to rebound after suffering his first UFC loss in September, when Diego Lopes stopped him at Noche UFC 3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/389356\/noche-ufc-3-results-diego-lopes-stops-jean-silva-via-spinning-elbow-in-wild-bloodbath\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>). Prior to the setback, \u201cLord\u201d was on an absolute tear, finishing everyone in sight \u2014 including Bryce Mitchell (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/4\/12\/24406962\/highlights-jean-silva-knocks-down-submits-bryce-mitchell-masterful-display-ufc-314-espn-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>), Drew Dober, and Charles Jourdain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Only one other bout has been announced for UFC 324 so far: a Light Heavyweight clash between Nikita Krylov and Modestas Bukauskas. Expect more additions soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/pages\/ufc-mma-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fun Featherweight fight has been added to the first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) card of 2026. Unfortunately,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,49483,702],"class_list":["post-306855","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-fight-announcements","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306855","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=306855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}