{"id":416378,"date":"2026-01-18T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416378\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T00:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:52:09","slug":"ufc-fight-night-271-adds-michael-chiesa-vs-carlston-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416378\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fight Night 271 adds Michael Chiesa vs. Carlston Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fun welterweight matchup has been added to <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-seattle-march-28-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Fight Night 271;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 271<\/a> in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>On March 28 at Climate Pledge Arena, Michael Chiesa will take on Carlston Harris. MMA Junkie confirmed the booking following a first report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BigMarcel24\/status\/2012555766264218093?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eurosport NL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eurosport NL<\/a>. The event is headlined by a middleweight bout between former champion <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/israel-adesanya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Israel Adesanya;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Israel Adesanya<\/a> and Joe Pyfer.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Chiesa (19-7 MMA, 14-7 UFC) steps away from the UFC analyst desk for his first fight since June, when he picked up a decision win over Court McGee. &#8220;The Ultimate Fighter 15&#8221; winner is currently on a three-fight winning streak, which includes stoppage wins over Tony Ferguson and Max Griffin.<\/p>\n<p>Harris (19-7 MMA, 4-3 UFC) shares the same overall professional record as Chiesa, but pales in UFC experience. He&#8217;ll look to get back on track after back-to-back stoppage losses to Khaos Williams and Santiago Ponzinibbio. Harris, 38, last tasted victory by way of third-round submission of Jeremiah Wells in August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Current UFC Seattle lineup<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Israel Adesanya vs. Joe Pyfer<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maycee Barber vs. Alexa Grasso<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Marcin Tybura vs. Valter Walker<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Michael Chiesa vs. Carlston Harris<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nicolle Caliari vs. Carol Foro<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Casey O&#8217;Neill vs. Gabriella Fernandes<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mansur Abdul-Malik vs. Yousri Belgaroui<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Marcio Barbosa vs. Kangjie Zhu<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/01\/17\/ufc-seattle-michael-chiesa-vs-carlston-harris\/88235308007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Seattle adds fun welterweight matchup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Seattle adds fun welterweight matchup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fun welterweight matchup has been added to UFC Fight Night 271 in Seattle. On March 28 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,174865,641,43061,81024,638,1302,82,3139,640],"class_list":["post-416378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlston-harris","tag-fighting","tag-israel-adesanya","tag-michael-chiesa","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-tony-ferguson","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416378","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=416378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}