{"id":433141,"date":"2023-04-12T16:01:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T20:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&p=433141"},"modified":"2023-04-12T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T18:33:27","slug":"brandon-moreno-will-fight-alexandre-pantoja-at-ufc-290","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/brandon-moreno-will-fight-alexandre-pantoja-at-ufc-290\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Moreno will fight Alexandre Pantoja at UFC 290"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brandon Moreno will try to defeat his opponent and retribute for 2 previous losses.<\/p>\n

Moreno, the current UFC flyweight champion, will put his title on the line against Pantoja on July 8 in Las Vegas<\/a>. UFC chief business officer Hunter Campbell announced today the fight at UFC 290.<\/p>\n

For now, this clash is forecast to be the co-main event of the evening.<\/p>\n

Alexandre Pantoja beat Moreno twice before Brandon won the title. The 1st<\/sup> victory was a demonstration match at The Ultimate Fighter in 2016 as he defeated him with submission. The 2nd<\/sup> one was an official match in 2018 as this time; the win came after a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Brandon Moreno is number 1 in the flyweight division, while Alexandre Pantoja is ranked 6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Moreno won the championship after 3rd<\/sup> round knockout to Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC 283.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brandon Moreno will try to defeat his opponent and retribute for 2 previous losses. Moreno, the current UFC flyweight champion, will put his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433142,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18148],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[18762,18761,1093,18760],"acf":{"announce":"Moreno and Pantoja will face in July in Vegas.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433143,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433141\/revisions\/433143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433141"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433141"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}