{"id":399372,"date":"2026-01-10T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/399372\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:10:07","slug":"ufc-books-top-strawweights-for-april-4-card-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/399372\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC books top strawweights for April 4 card in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Virna Jandiroba\u2019s first fight since challenging for UFC gold will be a Brazil vs. Brazil clash with Tabatha Ricci at the UFC APEX on April 4, MMA Fighting has confirmed following a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/leoguimaraesmma\/status\/2009723414408298860\" rel=\"nofollow\">Leo Guimaraes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC has yet to announce the main event attraction for the Las Vegas Fight Night card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jandiroba (22-4) was on a five-fight winning streak when she earned a shot at the vacant title against Mackenzie Dern in October, with then-champion Zhang Weili relinquishing the belt to challenge Valentina Shevchenko at flyweight, but ended up losing a decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cCarcara\u201d is a former Invicta FC champion with a record of 8-4 since joining the UFC in 2019, collecting victories against Yan Xiaonan, Amanda Lemos, Loopy Godinez, Marina Rodriguez and Angela Hill between 2022 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ricci (12-3) was victorious in seven of 10 octagon appearances since 2021, including a vicious knockout over Amanda Ribas in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBaby Shark\u201d was only defeated twice in strawweight bouts, a pair of decisions to Xiaonan and Godinez, and has scored wins against veterans likes Hill, Tecia Pennington, Gillian Robertson and Jessica Penne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virna Jandiroba\u2019s first fight since challenging for UFC gold will be a Brazil vs. Brazil clash with Tabatha&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399373,"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-399372","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\/399372","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=399372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}