{"id":944970,"date":"2026-10-24T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944970\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T22:00:09","slug":"van-kape-prates-morales-interim-title-fight-set-for-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944970\/","title":{"rendered":"Van-Kape, Prates-Morales interim title fight set for UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two belts will be up for grabs north of the border at UFC 336.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Van will defend the flyweight title against Manel Kape in the Jan. 30 main event at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, the promotion announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In the co-headliner, Carlos Prates and Michael Morales will square off for the interim welterweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Welterweight champion Islam Makhachev informed the UFC he wouldn&#8217;t be ready to defend the belt in January, leading to the interim title bout. Makhachev&#8217;s next fight likely won&#8217;t be until between May and July with Ramadan approaching, play-by-play commentator Jon Anik said on the UFC 333 broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 336 will mark the promotion&#8217;s first event in Toronto since January 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two belts will be up for grabs north of the border at UFC 336. Joshua Van will defend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-944970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944970","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=944970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}