{"id":74596,"date":"2025-08-16T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74596\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:50:10","slug":"patricio-pitbull-set-to-welcome-top-prospect-at-ufc-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74596\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricio Pitbull set to welcome top prospect at UFC Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Patricio Pitbull will fly to Europe on Sept. 6 to face off with highly-touted prospect Losene Keita in a featherweight contest on the UFC Paris card, MMA Fighting has confirmed following a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MMA__Matchmaker\/status\/1956525919679529435\" rel=\"nofollow\">Maitres Fumiers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Paris will take place at the Accor Arena in Paris and feature Nassourdine Imavov vs. Caio Borralho in the main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Keita (16-1) makes his first walk to the UFC after becoming a two-division champion in Czech-based promotion Oktagon, scoring three knockouts in his current five-fight winning streak at featherweight and lightweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pitbull (37-8) is also a former two-division MMA champion, claiming the 145 and 155-pound belts in Bellator. The most accomplished champion in Bellator history recently beat Dan Ige via decision after a debut loss to Yair Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Aside from that match-up and the main event attraction, UFC Paris will include three other bouts between Brazilians and Europeans: Mauricio Ruffy vs. Benoit Saint Denis, Brendson Ribeiro vs. Oumar Sy, and Kaue Fernandes vs. Fares Ziam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patricio Pitbull will fly to Europe on Sept. 6 to face off with highly-touted prospect Losene Keita in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-74596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74596","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=74596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}