{"id":608817,"date":"2026-04-16T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608817\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:28:08","slug":"ufc-winnipeg-illness-scraps-fight-2-days-before-gilbert-burns-vs-mike-malott-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608817\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Winnipeg: Illness scraps fight 2 days before Gilbert Burns vs. Mike Malott event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Winnipeg has lost a fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting that the scheduled flyweight bout between Mitch Raposo and Allan Nascimento has been removed from the card just two days before the event. Raposo has been dealing with a virus for the past several days, which forced UFC doctors to pull him from the bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Two sources with knowledge of the situation tell MMA Fighting that the fight is being discussed for a shift to UFC Vegas 119, which takes place June 20 at the Meta APEX and is headlined by a rematch between Manel Kape and Kyoji Horiguchi. While the bout is in talks for the new date, negotiations are currently in the preliminary stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Raposo entered 2026 with momentum following his first octagon win, an upset of Azat Maksum at UFC 321 this past October. The former Cage Titans champ dropped back-to-back split decisions to Andre Lima and Sumudaerji to start his UFC run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nascimento has won four straight heading into the matchup and is one of the division\u2019s rising fighters looking to break into the rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As of now, UFC Winnipeg moves forward with 12 fights, headlined by a welterweight bout between Gilbert Burns and Mike Malott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Winnipeg has lost a fight. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans confirmed to MMA Fighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-608817","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-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608817","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=608817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}