{"id":657654,"date":"2026-05-09T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/657654\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:44:09","slug":"ufc-328-final-face-offs-yahoo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/657654\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 328 Final Face-Offs &#8211; Yahoo Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey hosts Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/ufcnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC&quot;}\" class=\"link \">UFC<\/a> 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland event. The fighters officially weighed in on Friday morning and participated in the event&#8217;s ceremonial weigh-in in front of a live crowd Friday afternoon. Afterward, they faced off a final time ahead meeting inside the octagon.<\/p>\n<p>The event is headlined by a middleweight title fight between undefeated champion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/tag\/khamzat-chimaev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Khamzat Chimaev;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Khamzat Chimaev&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a>\u00a0and former titleholder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/tag\/sean-strickland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sean Strickland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sean Strickland&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sean Strickland<\/a>. ln the co-main event, flyweight champion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/tag\/joshua-van\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Joshua Van;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Joshua Van&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Joshua Van<\/a>\u00a0takes on No. 3 ranked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/tag\/tatsuro-taira\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tatsuro Taira;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tatsuro Taira&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Tatsuro Taira<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 328 Ceremonial Weigh-In Face-Offs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey hosts Saturday&#8217;s UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland event. The fighters officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,26291,638,48630,35696,82,640,243411],"class_list":["post-657654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-middleweight-title-fight","tag-mma","tag-prudential-center","tag-sean-strickland","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-undefeated-champion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657654","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=657654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}