{"id":37217,"date":"2026-03-15T16:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Steve-Erceg-vs-Tim-Elliott-booked-for-UFC-Perth-200461"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:10:52","slug":"steve-erceg-vs-tim-elliott-booked-for-ufc-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/steve-erceg-vs-tim-elliott-booked-for-ufc-perth\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Erceg vs. Tim Elliott booked for UFC Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><!--PICTURE R--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pointer\">\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/steve-erceg-vs-tim-elliott-booked-for-ufc-perth.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Steve Erceg was victorious in his last outing against Ode<br \/>\nOsbourne. | Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Steve-Erceg-228813\">Steve<br \/>\nErceg<\/a> will look for a victory in front of his home crowd<br \/>\nagainst <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Tim-Elliott-49213\">Tim<br \/>\nElliott<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Erceg (13-4) and Elliott (21-13) will meet in a flyweight clash at<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-328-May-2-111890\">UFC<br \/>\nPerth<\/a> on May 2 at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia.&nbsp;The<br \/>\nLas Vegas-based promotion recently announced the booking.<\/p>\n<h2>A Quick Ascent<\/h2>\n<p>Erceg made his UFC debut in 2023 and earned a surprising title shot<br \/>\nagainst <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Alexandre-Pantoja-25023\">Alexandre<br \/>\nPantoja<\/a> after just three victories. However, Erceg\u2019s stock<br \/>\nslightly dropped after a failed title bid against Pantoja in 2024.<br \/>\n\u201cAstro Boy\u201d then went on to drop two more against <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Kai-Kara-France-73692\">Kai<br \/>\nKara-France<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Brandon-Moreno-80173\">Brandon<br \/>\nMoreno<\/a>. Erceg has since rebounded with a win over <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ode-Osbourne-137969\">Ode<br \/>\nOsbourne<\/a> in August last year. The only other UFC card on which<br \/>\nErceg fought at home was UFC 305, where he was knocked out by<br \/>\nKara-France in 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Elliott has seen it all in the flyweight division in his<br \/>\nUFC career spanning over nearly a decade. A master of derailing the<br \/>\nhype trains of surging prospects, the 39-year-old is coming off<br \/>\nconsecutive submission wins over <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Su-Mudaerji-228263\">Su Mudaerji<\/a><br \/>\nand <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Kai-Asakura-226035\">Kai<br \/>\nAsakura<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Erceg was victorious in his last outing against Ode Osbourne. | Getty\/UFC Steve Erceg will look for a victory in front of his home crowd against Tim Elliott.&nbsp; Erceg (13-4) and Elliott (21-13) will meet in a flyweight clash at UFC Perth on May 2 at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia.&nbsp;The Las Vegas-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}