{"id":38371,"date":"2026-05-20T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Lineup-nearly-complete-for-UFC-Fight-Night-279-on-June-20-201269"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:00:53","slug":"lineup-nearly-complete-for-ufc-fight-night-279-on-june-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/lineup-nearly-complete-for-ufc-fight-night-279-on-june-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Lineup nearly complete for UFC Fight Night 279 on June 20"},"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\/05\/lineup-nearly-complete-for-ufc-fight-night-279-on-june-20.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Manel Kape will face Kyoji Horiguchi atop the UFC Fight Night<br \/>\n279 card. | Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The card for <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-Kape-vs-Horiguchi-2-112139\"><br \/>\nUFC Fight Night 279<\/a> appears to be nearing completion.<\/p>\n<p>The Las Vegas-based promotion recently confirmed 11 bouts for the<br \/>\nJune 20 event, which takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and<br \/>\nis headlined by a rematch between <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Manel-Kape-101189\">Manel Kape<\/a><br \/>\nand <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Kyoji-Horiguchi-64413\">Kyoji<br \/>\nHoriguchi<\/a>. The card will air in its entirety on Paramount plus<br \/>\nbeginning at 5 p.m. ET\/2 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p>Kape has been victorious in seven of his last eight promotional<br \/>\nappearances. \u201cStarboy\u201d is coming off a first-round knockout of<br \/>\nformer flyweight title challenger <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Brandon-Royval-83851\">Brandon<br \/>\nRoyval<\/a> at UFC on ESPN 73 on Dec. 13.<\/p>\n<p>A former UFC flyweight challenger, Horiguchi has won<br \/>\nback-back-to-back outings since returning to the Las Vegas-based<br \/>\norganization. In his most recent outing, \u201cKarate Kid\u201d outpointed<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Amir-Albazi-51365\">Amir<br \/>\nAlbazi<\/a> at UFC Fight Night 266 on Feb. 7.<\/p>\n<h2>UFC Fight Night 279 Card<\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Manel-Kape-101189\">Manel<br \/>\nKape<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Kyoji-Horiguchi-64413\">Kyoji<br \/>\nHoriguchi<\/a><br \/><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Farid-Basharat-222641\">Farid<br \/>\nBasharat<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ethyn-Ewing-312049\">Ethyn<br \/>\nEwing<\/a><br \/><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Karol-Rosa-115135\">Karol<br \/>\nRosa<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Luana-Santos-327683\">Luana<br \/>\nSantos<\/a><br \/><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jhonata-Diniz-490134\">Jhonata<br \/>\nDiniz<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jose-Luiz-123673\">Jose Luiz<\/a><br \/><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Beatriz-Mesquita-451242\">Beatriz<br \/>\nMesquita<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Melissa-Mullins-287951\">Melissa<br \/>\nMullins<\/a><br \/><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ion-Cutelaba-101427\">Ion<br \/>\nCutelaba<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Navajo-Stirling-413272\">Navajo<br \/>\nStirling<\/a><br \/><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Andre-Lima-201199\">Andre<br \/>\nLima<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Kevin-Borjas-245493\">Kevin<br \/>\nBorjas<\/a><br \/><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Gaston-Bolanos-140905\">Gaston<br \/>\nBolanos<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Michael-Aswell-286497\">Michael<br \/>\nAswell<\/a><br \/><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Hyder-Amil-269917\">Hyder<br \/>\nAmil<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Christian-Rodriguez-303043\">Christian<br \/>\nRodriguez<\/a><br \/><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Allan-Nascimento-87857\">Allan<br \/>\nNascimento<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Mitch-Raposo-278793\">Mitch<br \/>\nRaposo<\/a><br \/><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Melsik-Baghdasaryan-164681\">Melsik<br \/>\nBaghdasaryan<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Murtazali-Magomedov-417141\">Murtazali<br \/>\nMagomedov<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manel Kape will face Kyoji Horiguchi atop the UFC Fight Night 279 card. | Getty\/UFC The card for UFC Fight Night 279 appears to be nearing completion. The Las Vegas-based promotion recently confirmed 11 bouts for the June 20 event, which takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and is headlined by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38371","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\/38371","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=38371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}