{"id":412376,"date":"2026-01-16T04:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412376\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:34:07","slug":"ufc-324-full-fight-justin-gaethje-beats-rafael-fiziev-in-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412376\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 324 full fight: Justin Gaethje beats Rafael Fiziev in rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/justin-gaethje\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Justin Gaethje;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Justin Gaethje<\/a> is one of the few of his generation who&#8217;s still fighting at the elite level in the UFC&#8217;s lightweight division, and he proved that in his most recent outing.<\/p>\n<p>At UFC 313, Gaethje faced Rafael Fiziev for a second time in hopes to maintain his status in the division, and not go down the ladder like many other fellow veterans. &#8220;The Highlight&#8221; made sure to keep his title hopes alive by putting on a Fight of the Night performance against Fiziev, and winning a unanimous decision. It was a big win for Gaethje, as he was coming off a bad KO loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/max-holloway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Max Holloway;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Max Holloway<\/a> a year prior.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the rematch between Gaethje and Fiziev in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>Gaethje (26-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC) returns to the cage to fight for the UFC interim lightweight title in the main event of UFC 324\u00a0on Jan. 24 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. He takes on British star <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/paddy-pimblett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paddy Pimblett;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paddy Pimblett<\/a> (23-3 MMA, 7-0 UFC).<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/01\/15\/ufc-324-full-fight-video-justin-gaethje-vs-rafael-fiziev\/88167425007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 324 full fight: Justin Gaethje beats Rafael Fiziev in rematch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 324 full fight: Justin Gaethje beats Rafael Fiziev in rematch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Gaethje is one of the few of his generation who&#8217;s still fighting at the elite level in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,9577,1699,1698,638,40591,82,640],"class_list":["post-412376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-justin-gaethje","tag-lightweight-division","tag-max-holloway","tag-mma","tag-rafael-fiziev","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412376","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=412376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}