{"id":37746,"date":"2026-04-14T17:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/18time-Octagon-vet-promotional-newcomer-to-clash-UFC-Fight-Night-274-200839"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:04:01","slug":"18-time-octagon-vet-promotional-newcomer-to-clash-ufc-fight-night-274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/18-time-octagon-vet-promotional-newcomer-to-clash-ufc-fight-night-274\/","title":{"rendered":"18-time Octagon vet, promotional newcomer to clash UFC Fight Night 274"},"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\/04\/18-time-octagon-vet-promotional-newcomer-to-clash-ufc-fight-night-274.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Max<br \/>\nGriffin boasts a wealth of UFC experience. | Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>There will be a significant gap in big-fight experience when<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Max-Griffin-53904\">Max<br \/>\nGriffin<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Victor-Valenzuela-133527\">Victor<br \/>\nValenzuela<\/a> lock horns on April 25.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin, an 18-time Octagon veteran, and Valenzuela, a promotional<br \/>\nnewcomer, will meet in a welterweight contest at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-274-Brady-vs-Buckley-111715\"><br \/>\nUFC Fight Night 274<\/a>. The bout was first reported by <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/481564\/welterweights-battle-in-late-addition-to-aljamain-sterling-vs-youssef-zalal-ufc-fight-night-card\">MMAFighting.com<\/a>. UFC Fight Night 274 takes<br \/>\nplace at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and is headlined by a<br \/>\nbantamweight scrap pitting <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Aljamain-Sterling-66313\">Aljamain<br \/>\nSterling<\/a> against <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Youssef-Zalal-229985\">Youssef<br \/>\nZalal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Veteran vs. Rookie<\/h2>\n<p>Griffin has last three of his last four outings. Most recently, the<br \/>\n40-year-old Californian dropped a split verdict to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Chris-Curtis-48039\">Chris<br \/>\nCurtis<\/a> at UFC on ESPN 70 on July 12. Griffin is 8-10 during his<br \/>\nUFC tenure, with notable wins over the likes of <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Tim-Means-11281\">Tim Means<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Carlos-Condit-6765\">Carlos<br \/>\nCondit<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Mike-Perry-176179\">Mike<br \/>\nPerry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Valenzuela, meanwhile, suffered a second-round TKO loss to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Michael-Oliveira-272779\">Michael<br \/>\nOliveira<\/a> on Dana White\u2019s Contender Series last October. He has<br \/>\nsince rebounded with a stoppage win over <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Yusaku-Kinoshita-382723\">Yusaku<br \/>\nKinoshita<\/a> at Lemino Shooto Vol. 4 on March 30. Valenzuela is a<br \/>\nformer Fury FC welterweight champ and has also competed for<br \/>\norganizations such as LFA, Ring of Combat and Combate Global. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Griffin boasts a wealth of UFC experience. | Getty\/UFC There will be a significant gap in big-fight experience when Max Griffin and Victor Valenzuela lock horns on April 25. Griffin, an 18-time Octagon veteran, and Valenzuela, a promotional newcomer, will meet in a welterweight contest at UFC Fight Night 274. The bout was first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37746","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\/37746","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=37746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}