{"id":434664,"date":"2026-01-26T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/434664\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:17:08","slug":"after-ufc-324-is-a-title-shot-next-for-natalia-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/434664\/","title":{"rendered":"After UFC 324, is a title shot next for Natalia Silva?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/empiresportsmedia.com\/category\/mma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 324\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0featured a potential title eliminator in the women\u2019s flyweight division. Former strawweight champion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapology.com\/fightcenter\/fighters\/39227-rose-namajunas-the-riveter\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">\u201cThug\u201d Rose Namajunas\u00a0<\/a>(14-8) took on top contender\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapology.com\/fightcenter\/fighters\/99885-natalia-silva\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Natalia Silva<\/a>\u00a0(20-5-1).<\/p>\n<p>Natalia Silva made the walk on Saturday having won 13 fights in a row after a rough start to her MMA career. She has had won back-to-back fights over former champions and she was looking to add Namajunas to that list. <\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cThug\u201d Rose came for a fight and she looked really solid in the first two rounds. Silva wasn\u2019t being aggressive enough and it felt like Namajunas was getting out ahead at UFC 324. In the second round, Namajunas also got a takedown which sealed that round for her. <\/p>\n<p>I had her up 2-0 entering the third round. Finally, Silva started opening up and really used her speed in the third round. She won the third round going away, but with myself scoring the first two rounds for Rose, I gave Namajunas the fight 29-28. <\/p>\n<p>13 of the other 19 media members also agreed. However, the three that matter the most all scored the fight for Natalia Silva giving her the unanimous decision. <\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next after UFC 324?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s remember, Natalia Silva wasn\u2019t even supposed to fight on Saturday night. Namajunas was originally supposed to face former champ Alexa Grasso who just lost to Silva late last year. When Grasso fell out of the fight, Silva was willing to step in to face Namajunas for the promotion. <\/p>\n<p>She said and Dana White confirmed that Silva was promised a title shot should she beat Namajunas and that\u2019s what happened on Saturday night. It\u2019s obvious at this point, but Natalia Silva is going to be the next title challenger for UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 324\u00a0\u00a0featured a potential title eliminator in the women\u2019s flyweight division. Former strawweight champion\u00a0\u201cThug\u201d Rose Namajunas\u00a0(14-8) took on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-434664","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\/434664","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=434664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}