{"id":38553,"date":"2026-06-01T01:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Bryce-Mitchell-receives-lastminute-opponent-change-at-UFC-Fight-Night-278-201388"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:13:41","slug":"bryce-mitchell-receives-last-minute-opponent-change-at-ufc-fight-night-278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/bryce-mitchell-receives-last-minute-opponent-change-at-ufc-fight-night-278\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Mitchell receives last-minute opponent change at UFC Fight Night 278"},"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\/06\/bryce-mitchell-receives-last-minute-opponent-change-at-ufc-fight-night-278.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Bryce Mitchell was successful in his bantamweight debut. |<br \/>\nGetty\/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\/Bryce-Mitchell-151837\">Bryce<br \/>\nMitchell<\/a> has received a new opponent less than a week before<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-278-Muhammad-vs-Bonfim-112060\"><br \/>\nUFC Fight Night 278<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell will square off against <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Santiago-Luna-411838\">Santiago<br \/>\nLuna<\/a> at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Luna is a replacement for<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Victor-Henry-52195\">Victor<br \/>\nHenry<\/a>, who withdrew from the bantamweight bout for undisclosed<br \/>\nreasons. The promotion confirmed the change following an intiial<br \/>\nreport from <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ClubDeLasMMA\/status\/2059853639401841146?s=20\">MMA Latinoamerica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Taking on a Surging Prospect<\/h2>\n<p>Mitchell made his 135-pound debut at UFC on ABC 9, where he<br \/>\noutpointed <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Said-Nurmagomedov-103961\">Said<br \/>\nNurmagomedov<\/a> at UFC on ABC 9 last July. \u201cThug Nasty\u201d began his<br \/>\nOctagon tenure at featherweight, where he was victorious in his<br \/>\nfirst six appearances. After going 2-3 in his next three UFC bouts,<br \/>\nthe Sherwood, Arkansas, native elected to try his hand at<br \/>\nbantamweight.<\/p>\n<p>Luna is undefeated in eight pro fights \u2014 including two in UFC<br \/>\ncompetition. The 21-year-old Mexican has defeated <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Quang-Le-223785\">Quang Le<\/a> via<br \/>\nfirst-round knockout and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Angel-Pacheco-90675\">Angel<br \/>\nPacheco<\/a> via decision in the Las Vegas-based promotion. The<br \/>\nEntram Gym product has finished all but one of his victories inside<br \/>\nthe distance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryce Mitchell was successful in his bantamweight debut. | Getty\/UFC Bryce Mitchell has received a new opponent less than a week before UFC Fight Night 278. Mitchell will square off against Santiago Luna at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Luna is a replacement for Victor Henry, who withdrew from the bantamweight bout for undisclosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38553","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\/38553","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=38553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}