{"id":904802,"date":"2026-09-22T02:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904802\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T02:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:10:09","slug":"on-to-the-next-one-matches-to-make-after-chaotic-ufc-331-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904802\/","title":{"rendered":"On To the Next One: Matches to make after chaotic UFC 331 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UFC 331 delivered one of the best fight cards of 2026, and in the main event, Joshua Van defeated Alexandre Pantoja in their highly anticipated rematch in an incredible five-round battle, while Arman Tsarukyan earned himself a shot at Justin Gaethje and the lightweight title with a brutal knockout of Mauricio Ruffy. Is everything 100 percent locked in, or could a couple of curve balls come their way?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee discuss what could be next for Van and Tsarukyan after their big wins to close the show at UFC 331. Future matchups are also discussed for Patricio Pitbull following his knockout win over Doo Ho Choi, Sean Sharaf after he career-altering 12-second destruction of Gable Steveson, along with fellow main card winner Iwo Baraniewski, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Plus, the fellas take your matchmaking suggestions at the end of the show \u2014 from the chat, and the SB Nation app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Watch the UFC 331 edition of On To the Next One in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 331 delivered one of the best fight cards of 2026, and in the main event, Joshua Van&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,37036,329,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":["post-904802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mmaf-podcast-network","tag-podcasts","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904802","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=904802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}