{"id":521928,"date":"2026-03-08T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521928\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:49:08","slug":"we-got-some-work-to-do-caio-borralho-bests-reinier-de-ridder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521928\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Got Some Work To Do&#8221; &#8211; Caio Borralho Bests Reinier de Ridder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/caio-borralho\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caio Borralho<\/a> remains in the middleweight title picture and is looking for former champion Dricus Du Plessis next, following his win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/reinier-de-ridder\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reinier de Ridder<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-326-2\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 326<\/a> co-main event.<\/p>\n<p>Borralho connected with a strong shot in the opening seconds of the bout, setting off a competitive first round. Both men had their fair share of striking, but Borralho had more activity and landed more.<\/p>\n<p>De Ridder found success in the second round, utilizing the clinch and his grappling efforts to limit Borralho&#8217;s offense while landing inside strikes of his own. Borralho finally seemed to get back control at the start of the third, landing a power shot and scoring a takedown.<\/p>\n<p>Borralho fatigued late in the fight, but he did enough to sweep the judges&#8217; cards and earn the win.<\/p>\n<p>Caio Borralho Scores Decision Win In Middleweight Co-Main Event At UFC 326<\/p>\n<p>Borralho rebounds from his UFC Paris loss to Nassourdine Imavov in September, which marked his first loss in the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>After starting his UFC tenure 4-0, including a win over former champion Robert Whittaker, de Ridder, the former two-weight ONE Championship champion, has now lost two straight. He was bested by Brendan Allen at UFC Vancouver in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caio Borralho remains in the middleweight title picture and is looking for former champion Dricus Du Plessis next,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,32140,48,641,638,15957,82,152204],"class_list":{"0":"post-521928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-caio-borralho","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-reinier-de-ridder","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-326"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521928","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=521928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}