{"id":400363,"date":"2026-01-10T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400363\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:01:21","slug":"ufc-326-features-light-heavyweight-bout-with-fighter-on-unique-3-fight-winless-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400363\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 326 features light heavyweight bout with fighter on unique 3-fight winless run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rodolfo Bellato aims to snap his unusual three-fight winless streak when he faces off with Luke Fernandez at UFC 326, a numbered event scheduled for March 7 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The promotion officially announced the booking Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bellato (12-3-1, 1 NC) knocked out Ihor Potieria in his UFC debut and then fought to a majority draw with Jimmy Crute. His next bout ended in controversy when \u201cTrator\u201d was unable continue after receiving an illegal upkick from Paul Craig. Back in the cage three months later, Bellato lost a decision to Navajo Stirling to drop his promotional record to 1-1-1-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fernandez (6-0) is a former CFFC light heavyweight champion who earned a deal with the UFC through Dana White\u2019s Contender Series in October 2025, when he ran through Rafael Pergentino in just 15 seconds. That knockout, his fifth in six professional bouts, was the fastest victory of Fernandez\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC 326 is headlined by another U.S. vs. Brazil clash with Max Holloway defending his BMF title in a highly anticipated rematch with Charles Oliveira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rodolfo Bellato aims to snap his unusual three-fight winless streak when he faces off with Luke Fernandez at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400364,"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-400363","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\/400363","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=400363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}