{"id":387658,"date":"2026-01-04T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387658\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:27:07","slug":"brad-tavares-fights-eryk-anders-at-ufc-vegas-114-for-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387658\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Tavares fights Eryk Anders at UFC Vegas 114 for history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) history could be made this March \u2026 at the Apex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">27-fight UFC veteran Brad Tavares is set to return to action against fellow longtime veteran Eryk Anders at UFC Vegas 114 on Saturday, March 14, 2026, inside the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. <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\">MMAJunkie<\/a> was first to report the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tavares (16-11) is one victory shy of surpassing Michael Bisping for the most UFC wins in the 185-pound weight class, as both fighters are currently tied at 16. He\u2019ll get another chance to break the record after coming up short in his last outing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/385116\/ufc-paris-results-live-streaming-updates-imavov-vs-borralho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a knockout loss to<\/a> Robert Bryczek at UFC Paris. Prior to that, Tavares put on a dominant performance over Gerald Meerschaert, but he has alternated wins and losses in recent fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Notably, Tavares has never earned a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-bonuses-and-awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Performance of the Night<\/a>\u201d bonus during his 26-fight UFC tenure and shares the record for most decision wins (14) with Neil Magny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Anders (17-9) will be retiring when he steps into the Octagon, as his contract expires. \u201cYa Boi\u201d is coming off a knockout loss to Christian Leroy Duncan at UFC Vegas 109 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/381466\/highlights-christian-leroy-duncan-styles-on-eryk-anders-with-spinning-elbow-knockout-ufc-vegas-109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>), though he previously retired Chris Weidman at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/12\/7\/24307331\/ufc-310-results-live-streaming-updates-alexandre-pantoja-vs-kei-asakura-ppv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 310<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/12\/7\/24315659\/full-fight-video-highlights-ufc-310-results-espn-ppv-las-vegas-anders-knockout-weidman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>). Anders will be looking to leave the UFC with a winning record, currently sitting at 9-9-1 in the promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here is what UFC Vegas 114 looks like so far:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">o 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":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) history could be made this March \u2026 at the Apex. 27-fight UFC veteran Brad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387659,"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-387658","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\/387658","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=387658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}