{"id":418664,"date":"2026-01-19T04:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418664\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:27:11","slug":"ufc-324-countdown-video-mma-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418664\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018UFC 324 Countdown\u2019 video | MMA Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC 324 marks the kickoff of the promotion\u2019s 2026 campaign and its first-ever event on Paramount+ and the build-up officially begins with the latest in the long-running \u201cCountdown\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Watch the latest episode above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the main event of the Jan. 24 card in Las Vegas, future UFC Hall of Famer Justin Gaethje takes on Paddy Pimblett with an interim title up for grabs. Gaethje has held interim status before, but seeks to earn a shot at undisputed champion Ilia Topuria if he can stop the streaking Pimblett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe Baddy\u201d keeps finding ways to win since joining the UFC in 2021. The Englishman has seen his hand raised in all seven of his fights for the promotion and seeks to silence the doubters by adding a UFC title to his trophy case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC 324 also features several former champions in action, with Sean O\u2019Malley fighting Song Yadong in the bantamweight co-main event, two-time strawweight champion Rose Namajunas facing top flyweight contender Natalia Silva, and two-time flyweight king Deiveson Figueiredo looking to stifle Umar Nurmagomedov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 324 marks the kickoff of the promotion\u2019s 2026 campaign and its first-ever event on Paramount+ and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":["post-418664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418664","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=418664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}