{"id":345090,"date":"2025-12-14T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345090\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:24:09","slug":"ufc-fight-night-266-adds-amir-albazi-vs-kyoji-horiguchi-other-bouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345090\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fight Night 266 adds Amir Albazi vs. Kyoji Horiguchi, other bouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC continues to fill out its early 2026 cards with multiple new confirmed matchups for <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-bautista-vs-oliveira\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Fight Night 266;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 266<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Feb. 7 card from UFC Apex in Las Vegas (Paramount+) will be headlined by a bantamweight pairing between Mario Bautista and Vinicius Oliveira, which has previously been <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/mario-bautista-vs-vinicius-oliveira-021752737.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:confirmed by MMA Junkie;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed by MMA Junkie<\/a>, but now there are several new additions.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The most prominent of those is the flyweight co-main event, which will see former Bellator and RIZIN FF champ Kyoji Horiguchi (35-5 MMA, 8-1 UFC) continue his second octagon stint when he takes on fellow contender Amir Albazi (17-2 MMA, 5-1 UFC) in a three-round showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Other new pairings confirmed by the UFC on Saturday&#8217;s UFC on ESPN 73 broadcast include: Rizvan Kuniev vs. Ryan Spann at heavyweight, Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk at middleweight, Farid Basharat vs. Jean Matsumoto at bantamweight and more.<\/p>\n<p>The latest UFC Fight Night 266 lineup now includes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mario Bautista vs. Vinicius Oliveira<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Amir Albazi vs. Kyoji Horiguchi<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rizvan Kuniev vs. Ryan Spann<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Farid Basharat vs. Jean Matsumoto<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Uran Satybaldiev vs. Julius Walker<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wang Cong vs. Eduarda Moura<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/12\/14\/ufc-vegas-113-adds-amir-albazi-vs-kyoji-horiguchi-other-bouts\/87762753007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Vegas 113 adds Amir Albazi vs. Kyoji Horiguchi, other bouts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Vegas 113 adds Amir Albazi vs. Kyoji Horiguchi, other bouts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC continues to fill out its early 2026 cards with multiple new confirmed matchups for UFC Fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[23376,49,48,111495,641,93594,80519,638,1302,150545,150546,82,640,30004,150544],"class_list":["post-345090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-amir-albazi","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-farid-basharat","tag-fighting","tag-kyoji-horiguchi","tag-mario-bautista","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-rizvan-kuniev","tag-ryan-spann","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-apex","tag-vinicius-oliveira"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345090","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=345090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}