{"id":769877,"date":"2026-06-29T23:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769877\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:42:08","slug":"ufc-329-loses-ethyn-ewing-vs-farid-basharat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769877\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 329 Loses Ethyn Ewing Vs. Farid Basharat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cSin City\u201d just lost (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/452861\/opening-fight-canceled-gable-steveson-dumped-prelims-latest-ufc-329-fight-card-update-breaks-my-heart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another<\/a>) good one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Top Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight prospect Ethyn Ewing has been forced out of his scheduled bout against undefeated Farid Basharat, which was set to go down at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/444863\/ufc-329-fight-card-start-time-date-location-conor-mcgregor-max-holloway-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 329<\/a> next weekend (Sat., July 11, 2026) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BestFightPicks\" rel=\"nofollow\">BestFightPicks<\/a> was first to report the news, adding that the promotion is currently looking for a replacement opponent for Basharat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Two UFC fights. Two unbeaten opponents handed their first professional loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ewing was on a mission to make it three straight against Basharat, but that will have to wait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Basharat (15-0), meanwhile, has quietly assembled an impressive UFC resume, winning six straight fights inside the Octagon. While he has not generated major hype because of a lack of finishes, the Afghan standout has consistently found ways to win. \u201cFerocious\u201d is coming off a split decision victory over Jean Matsumoto and previously defeated former ranked contender Chris Gutierrez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It was one of the best prelim fights on the entire UFC 329 card, so yeah, this one definitely stings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here is what UFC 329 looks like:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more UFC 329 fight news and coverage click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/444863\/ufc-329-fight-card-start-time-date-location-conor-mcgregor-max-holloway-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSin City\u201d just lost (another) good one. Top Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight prospect Ethyn Ewing has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,49483,44986,702],"class_list":["post-769877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-fight-announcements","tag-ufc-prelims","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769877","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=769877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}