{"id":576552,"date":"2026-04-02T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576552\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:31:08","slug":"ufc-perth-adds-four-fights-to-may-2-australia-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576552\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Perth adds four fights to May 2 Australia card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four more fights have been added to UFC Perth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heads back \u201cDown Under\u201d on Sat., May 2, 2026, inside RAC Arena in Perth, Australia. In the main event<\/a>, former Welterweight champion Jack Della Maddalena returns home to face dangerous Brazilian striker Carlos Prates in what promises to be a banger.<\/p>\n

Today (Weds., April 1, 2026), the promotion announced several additions to the Aussie heavy card.<\/p>\n

Aussie knockout artist Brando Pericic gets a major opportunity, taking on No. 13-ranked Heavyweight<\/a> Shamil Gaziev for a chance to snatch a ranking.<\/p>\n

Pericic (6-1) has been on fire since joining the promotion, winning both of his UFC bouts in under two minutes (watch highlights<\/a>), including his most recent knockout win against Louie Sutherland at UFC London.<\/p>\n

Gaziev (14-2), meanwhile, is looking to bounce back from a first-round knockout loss to Waldo Cortes-Acosta at UFC Qatar (watch highlights<\/a>). The 36-year-old currently sits at 3-2 inside the Octagon.<\/p>\n

Micallef (9-1) is undefeated in the UFC so far and is coming off his first finish in the promotion, putting Oban Elliott to sleep earlier this year at UFC 325 (watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Gorimbo (14-6) will look to snap a two-fight losing streak after previously riding a four-fight win streak. He\u2019s coming off a unanimous decision loss to Jeremiah Wells as a betting favorite.<\/p>\n

At Bantamweight, Colby Thicknesse \u2014 a training partner of Alexander Volkanovski \u2014 looks to build momentum against veteran Vince Morales.<\/p>\n

Thicknesse (8-1) picked up his first UFC win last time out, defeating Josias Musasa via decision after dropping a competitive debut to Aleksandre Topuria.<\/p>\n

Morales (16-10), on the other hand, is in desperate need of a win. Since returning to the promotion, he has dropped three straight bouts, including losses to Taylor Lapilus, Elijah Smith, and Raul Rosas Jr.<\/p>\n

Finally, Wes Schultz welcomes exciting Middleweight prospect Ben Johnston to the Octagon.<\/p>\n

Schultz (8-3) earned his contract on Contender Series with a rare Suloev Stretch submission but was brutally knocked out in his UFC debut by Damian Pinas at UFC Mexico City (watch highlights<\/a>). He\u2019ll now look to rebound.<\/p>\n

Johnston (5-1), an elite striker-turned submission specialist, enters on a four-fight win streak with a 100 percent finish rate (four submissions, one knockout) and will be making his UFC debut in front of a home crowd.<\/p>\n

Here is what the UFC Perth lineup looks like so far:<\/p>\n

To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four more fights have been added to UFC Perth. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heads back \u201cDown Under\u201d on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,49483,139445,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-576552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-fight-announcements","15":"tag-ufc-on-paramount","16":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576552","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=576552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}