{"id":47977,"date":"2025-08-05T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47977\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:58:08","slug":"yuneisy-duben-withdraws-from-ufc-fight-night-258-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47977\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuneisy Duben withdraws from UFC Fight Night 258 in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kennedy Freeman needs a new opponent for her UFC debut.<\/p>\n<p>Yuneisy Duben has withdrawn from UFC Fight Night 258 for undisclosed reasons. The three-round flyweight bout was scheduled for Sept. 2 at Accor Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Two people with knowledge of the matchup recently informed MMA Junkie of the booking but asked to remain anonymous as the promotion has yet to make an official announcement.<\/p>\n<p>When she competes again, Duben (6-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) will look to rebound from a head kick loss in her UFC debut vs. Carli Judice in March.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman (6-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) is expected to remain on the card. It&#8217;s just not yet known vs. who. She is the daughter of the first British fighter in UFC history, Ian Freeman, and is a former Cage Warriors champion.<\/p>\n<p>With the change, the UFC Fight Night 258 lineup includes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nassourdine Imavov vs. Caio Borralho<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Benoit Saint-Denis vs. Mauricio Ruffy<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ante Delija vs. Marcin Tybura<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Modestas Bukauskas vs. Paul Craig<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Robert Bryczek vs. Brad Tavares<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mason Jones vs. Bolaji Oki<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rinat Fakhretdinov vs. Andreas Gustafsson<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Brendon Ribeiro vs. Oumar Sy<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shauna Bannon vs. Sam Hughes<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">William Gomis vs. Robert Ruchala<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kaue Fernandes vs. Fares Ziam<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sam Patterson vs. Trey Waters<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/05\/ufc-paris-kennedy-freeman-vs-yuneisy-duben-off\/85529207007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Paris loses fighter: Kennedy Freeman in search of new opponent;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Paris loses fighter: Kennedy Freeman in search of new opponent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kennedy Freeman needs a new opponent for her UFC debut. Yuneisy Duben has withdrawn from UFC Fight Night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,33124,641,33123,33122,638,82,640,33125],"class_list":["post-47977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-duben","tag-fighting","tag-ian-freeman","tag-kennedy-freeman","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-undisclosed-reasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47977","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=47977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}