{"id":426398,"date":"2026-01-22T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426398\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:46:10","slug":"ufc-324-preview-and-prediction-umar-nurmagomedov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426398\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 324 Preview and Prediction: Umar Nurmagomedov"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long six-week stretch with no fights, we are officially just days away from UFC 324<\/a>. The Paramount era is about to begin and the promotion is bringing a very solid card to the table for their debut event. <\/p>\n

The featured prelim of Saturday night\u2019s card is a matchup between top bantamweight Umar Nurmagomedov<\/a> (19-1) and former flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo<\/a> (25-5-1). A very interesting and kind of complexing matchup for this card. <\/p>\n

Starting with the former flyweight champion, he just turned 38 and he\u2019s currently ranked 6th in the division. He\u2019s coming off a decision win against Montel Jackson where he was the betting underdog. Since moving to 135, the former UFC flyweight champ is 4-2 with the losses coming against Petr Yan and Cory Sandhagen. <\/p>\n

Umar Nurmagomedov was challenging for the bantamweight title almost exactly one year ago. He lost a close decision to Merab Dvalishvili which was his first career loss. At UFC 321 in October, he returned and bounced back with a tough decision win over a very game Mario Bautista. <\/p>\n

UFC 324 Prediction<\/p>\n

Umar Nurmagomedov is a massive betting favorite in this fight. This might be, without checking, the largest odds against a former world champion I\u2019ve ever seen. As of this morning, Nurmagomedov was hovering around a -1600 favorite for this fight. <\/p>\n

Crazy thing is, that might be generous towards Figueiredo. I\u2019m really having a tough time seeing where he wins at UFC 324. At bantamweight, Figgy has really used wrestling and bully-tactics to pick up wins. While he\u2019s shown off some speed and power on the feet, he\u2019s really relied on his wrestling. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s at a massive wrestling disadvantage against Nurmagomedov. Now, we\u2019ve seen Nurmagomedov be clipped and rocked on the feet, but I just don\u2019t see Figgy being able to land a big enough shot to put him away. Nurmagomedov likely has the advantage in terms of his overall striking game. <\/p>\n

I just think this is going to be one-way traffic at UFC 324 and the big question is whether or not they\u2019ll be a finish. Deiveson Figueiredo is as tough as they come so I\u2019ll say he gets to the final bell, but I don\u2019t see him having much success. <\/p>\n

Prediction: Umar Nurmagomedov by Decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a long six-week stretch with no fights, we are officially just days away from UFC 324. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-426398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426398","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=426398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}