An intriguing UFC bantamweight bout is close to being finalized.<\/p>\n
Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that the UFC is targeting a matchup between Rob Font and Raul Rosas Jr. for UFC 326. The event takes place March 7 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, streaming exclusively on Paramount+.<\/p>\n
Agreements are in place for the contest, with contracts expected to be issued soon.<\/p>\n
Font is slated to make his 21st octagon appearance, and looks to bounce back from a loss in his most recent bout. Scheduled to face Rosas at Noche UFC this past September, Font ended up facing surging prospect David Martinez at the event after Rosas withdrew, and dropped a unanimous decision. The loss snapped a two-fight win streak for the No. 14 ranked 135-pounder in MMA Fighting\u2019s Global Rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rosas is 5-1 in the UFC, and enters the biggest bout of his career to date on a four-fight win streak. After losing his lone pro bout to Christian Rodriguez at UFC 287 in April 2023, the 21-year-old has picked up a pair of decision wins \u2014 including a victory over Vince Morales at UFC Mexico in his lone 2025 bout this past March \u2014 and a pair of stoppage victories over Terrence Mitchell and Ricky Turcios.<\/p>\n UFC 326 is headlined by the second meeting between Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira, this time for Holloway\u2019s BMF title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An intriguing UFC bantamweight bout is close to being finalized. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108255,"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-395523","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\/395523","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=395523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}