{"id":335566,"date":"2025-12-09T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335566\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:26:09","slug":"ufc-vegas-112-adds-bout-between-longtime-lightweight-veteran-and-ufc-debutant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335566\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 112 adds bout between longtime lightweight veteran and UFC debutant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">King Green\u2019s 28th UFC appearance comes against an octagon newcomer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck confirmed with multiple sources with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans that Green (32-17-1, 1 NC) is set to fight the debuting Lance Gibson Jr. (9-1) in a 160-pound catchweight bout at UFC Vegas 112, with the fight coming together just days ahead of Saturday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Green is one of the longest tenured fighters in the UFC\u2019s lightweight division, making nearly 30 walks to the octagon while facing numerous marquee names over the years. He\u2019s won more than he\u2019s lost in the UFC, with 13 wins and 12 losses, but is currently in 1-3 slump with back-to-back losses to Mauricio Ruffy and Paddy Pimblett. He competes for the second time in 2025 and looks to go out on a high note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Canada\u2019s Gibson competes for the first time since November 2024. He competed six times for Bellator, going 5-1 in the promotion. On Tuesday, he wrote in his Instagram Stories, \u201cWhen destiny comes knocking, will you answer the door? I DID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Vegas 112 is headlined by a flyweight grudge match between Manel Kape and Brandon Royval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Green\u2019s 28th UFC appearance comes against an octagon newcomer. MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck confirmed with multiple sources&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-335566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335566","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=335566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}