{"id":223528,"date":"2026-06-19T23:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223528\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T23:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:42:19","slug":"two-title-fights-official-for-ufc-330-in-philadelphia-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223528\/","title":{"rendered":"Two title fights official for UFC 330 in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC confirmed two title fights for Aug. 15 in Philadelphia, underscoring the stakes for a championship doubleheader. UFC 330 will headline Islam Makhachev vs Ian Garry for the welterweight title at Xfinity Mobile Arena. The co-main event features Mackenzie Dern defending the strawweight crown against Gillian Robertson. Makhachev enters with four successful title defenses at 155 pounds and a 16-fight UFC winning streak, tied with Anderson Silva. After a decision loss to Shavkat Rakhmonov at UFC 310, Garry rebounded with wins over Carlos Prates and Belal Muhammad. Dern captured 115-pound gold at UFC 320 after Weili Zhang vacated, outpointing Virna Jandiroba to extend a three-fight UFC run. Robertson arrives on a five-bout streak, including a unanimous decision over Amanda Lemos at UFC Fight Night 269 on March 14, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC confirmed two title fights for Aug. 15 in Philadelphia, underscoring the stakes for a championship doubleheader. UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[97150,96543,96541,96542,69,71,70,97149,74817],"class_list":["post-223528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-carlos-prates","tag-ian-garry","tag-islam-makhachev","tag-mackenzie-dern","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-shavkat-rakhmonov","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}