{"id":453976,"date":"2026-05-22T04:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/453976\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:01:14","slug":"ufc-vegas-117-winner-jumps-on-ufc-macau-card-on-short-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/453976\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 117 winner jumps on UFC Macau card on short notice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cGrim\u201d is right back at it.<\/p>\n

Fresh off his win at UFC Vegas 117<\/a>, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight Luis Gurule is stepping up on short notice to face Japanese prospect Rei Tsuruya at UFC Macau<\/a> next weekend (Sat., May 30, 2026).<\/p>\n

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Gurule replaces Mexican Flyweight Jesus Aguilar, who was originally scheduled to fight Tsuruya before being forced to withdraw from the matchup.<\/p>\n

Heavy.com<\/a> was first to report the booking.<\/p>\n

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Gurule (11-3) was essentially fighting for his UFC future this past weekend after beginning his Octagon career 0-3 \u2014 and he delivered in a big way.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrim\u201d dominated Daniel Barez at UFC Vegas 117<\/a> to earn his first UFC victory and secure his place on the roster after entering the fight under serious pressure.<\/p>\n

Before the win, Gurule had dropped decisions to Alden Coria and Aguilar, while also suffering a stoppage loss to Ode Osbourne in his promotional debut (watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Now, less than two weeks later, he gets a huge opportunity against one of the promotion\u2019s better Flyweight prospects.<\/p>\n

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Tsuruya (12-1) has not competed since March 2025, when he suffered the first loss of his professional career<\/a> against current UFC Flyweight champion Joshua Van.<\/p>\n

Prior to that setback, the 23-year-old Japanese grappling specialist impressed in his UFC debut by defeating Carlos Hernandez via unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Tsuruya originally earned his UFC contract by winning Road to UFC Season 2 and remains one of the more highly regarded Flyweight prospects in Asia.<\/p>\n

As for Gurule, this is a massive opportunity to completely flip the narrative surrounding his UFC career.<\/p>\n

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What looked like a likely roster cut just a week ago has suddenly turned into back-to-back UFC appearances and a chance to derail a highly touted prospect overseas.<\/p>\n

Here is what UFC Macau looks like:<\/p>\n

Song Yadong vs. Deiveson Figueiredo<\/p>\n

Zhang Mingyang vs. Alonzo Menifield<\/p>\n

Sergei Pavlovich vs. Tallison Teixeira<\/p>\n

Kai Asakura vs. Cameron Smotherman<\/p>\n

Jake Matthews vs. Carlston Harris<\/p>\n

Alex Perez vs. Sumudaerji<\/p>\n

Ding Meng vs. Jos\u00e9 Henrique<\/p>\n

Aoriqileng vs. Cody Haddon<\/p>\n

Rei Tsuruya vs. Luis Gurule<\/p>\n

Angela Hill vs. Xiong Jingnan<\/p>\n

Zhu Kangjie vs. Rodrigo Vera<\/p>\n

Loma Lookboonmee vs. Jaqueline Amorim<\/p>\n

To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGrim\u201d is right back at it. Fresh off his win at UFC Vegas 117, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[211856,85,46,211855,20596,6958,211854,105,7793,80866,211853],"class_list":["post-453976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-flyweight-luis-gurule","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jesus-aguilar","tag-las-vegas","tag-nevada","tag-rei-tsuruya","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-flyweight","tag-ufc-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}