{"id":364647,"date":"2025-12-23T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364647\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:24:09","slug":"eryk-anders-vs-brad-tavares-booked-for-march-ufc-fight-night-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364647\/","title":{"rendered":"Eryk Anders vs. Brad Tavares booked for March UFC Fight Night event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Tavares will add another notch to his record number of UFC middleweight walks when he clashes with Eryk Anders in March.<\/p>\n<p>Tavares (21-11 MMA, 16-11 UFC), who shares the all-time record for UFC wins at 185 pounds alongside Michael Bisping, has been booked for a matchup with Anders (17-9 MMA, 9-9 UFC) at UFC Fight Night on March 14. The event takes place at UFC Apex in Las Vegas (<a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/6yoorr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paramount+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paramount+<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Two people with knowledge of the matchup verified the booking to MMA Junkie on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tavares, 38, has dropped three of his past four fights dating back to February 2024, with his lone victory in that stretch coming against Gerald Meerschaert in April.<\/p>\n<p>Anders, 38, meanwhile, is coming off a first-round knockout loss to Christian Leroy Duncan at UFC on ESPN 72 in August. The matchup with Tavares will be the last on his current UFC contract, and he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/one-fight-left-contract-eryk-120245508.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:previously stated he will retire;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\">previously stated he will retire<\/a> after completing his deal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The latest lineup for UFC Fight Night on March 14 includes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gillian Robertson vs. Amanda Lemos<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lone&#8217;er Kavanagh vs. Bruno Silva<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bia Mesquita vs. Montserrat Rendon<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Eryk Anders vs. Brad Tavares<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/12\/23\/eryk-anders-vs-brad-tavares-ufc-fight-night-booking\/87900237007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eryk Anders vs. Brad Tavares booked for March UFC Fight Night;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eryk Anders vs. Brad Tavares booked for March UFC Fight Night<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Tavares will add another notch to his record number of UFC middleweight walks when he clashes with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[69177,49,48,23559,641,30468,638,1302,82,640,30004],"class_list":["post-364647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-brad-tavares","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eryk-anders","tag-fighting","tag-michael-bisping","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-apex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364647","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=364647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}