{"id":347736,"date":"2025-12-15T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347736\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:36:07","slug":"kyoji-horiguchi-vs-amir-albazi-set-for-ufc-vegas-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347736\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyoji Horiguchi vs Amir Albazi set for UFC Vegas 113"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/408672\/ufc-vegas-112-results-video-highlights-royval-vs-kape\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 112 broadcast<\/a> last weekend, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) officials announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 8-ranked <\/a>Flyweight Kyoji Horiguchi will face No. 5-ranked Amir Albazi in the co-main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-announcements\/408960\/mario-bautista-vs-vinicius-oliveira-headlines-first-paramount-apex-event-on-feb-7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 113<\/a>, scheduled for Sat., Feb. 7, 2026, inside the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Horiguchi (35-5) returned to the Octagon last month after nearly a decade away from the promotion and made an immediate statement. The Japanese standout dominated Tagir Ulanbekov at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/403986\/ufc-qatar-live-results-highlights-play-by-play-tsarukyan-vs-hooker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Qatar<\/a>, becoming the first fighter to finish the notoriously durable Russian (<a href=\"http:\/\/g\" rel=\"nofollow\">watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, he\u2019ll get his opportunity against a Top 5 contender. Horiguchi enters the matchup riding a six-fight win streak, with three of those victories coming by way of finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Albazi (17-2) hasn\u2019t competed since 2024, sitting out all of 2025 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/29\/24477031\/amir-albazi-releases-statement-about-heartbreaking-ufc-vegas-108-withdrawal-not-the-end\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">withdrawing from a scheduled bout<\/a> against Tatsuro Taira just days before their planned August showdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here is what UFC Vegas 113 looks like so far:<\/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":"During the UFC Vegas 112 broadcast last weekend, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) officials announced that No. 8-ranked Flyweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,49483,139445,702],"class_list":["post-347736","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-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347736","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=347736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}