{"id":38692,"date":"2026-06-07T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/UFC-Vegas-118-winner-Bryce-Mitchell-feels-at-home-at-bantamweight-201461"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:54:14","slug":"ufc-vegas-118-winner-bryce-mitchell-feels-at-home-at-bantamweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/ufc-vegas-118-winner-bryce-mitchell-feels-at-home-at-bantamweight\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 118 winner Bryce Mitchell feels at home at bantamweight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bryce
\nMitchell<\/a> feels like he belongs in the bantamweight
\ndivision.<\/p>\n

Mitchell (19-3) was originally scheduled to fight Victor
\nHenry<\/a> at
\nUFC Fight Night 278<\/a> on Saturday. However, Henry was forced out
\nwith an injury and replaced by a previously undefeated Santiago
\nLuna<\/a> (8-1) on short notice. Mitchell dominated Luna on the
\nground throughout the fight before securing an arm-triangle choke,
\nforcing Luna to tap with less than ten seconds left. While the
\nfight was not very fan-friendly apart from the finish, Mitchell
\nexplained that he largely burned his arms out trying to control his
\nopponent. Mitchell remarked in a post-fight interview:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m squeezing so hard with my arms the whole fight; it was
\nactually hard for me to elbow and punch him. Because you do that
\nwith your hands too\u2026 When he moves, I finally get to punch, but I
\ndon\u2019t get to do very big punches because he is moving. So, you get
\na heavy grappling match, an exhausting pace, with very little room
\nfor error. He made a slight mistake, and I was able to capitalize
\non it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell worked his way into the rankings before suffering his
\nfirst professional loss against future double-champ Ilia
\nTopuria<\/a> in 2022. \u201cThug Nasty\u201d then dropped two of his next four
\nand chose to drop to 135 pounds following his brutal knockout loss
\nto Jean
\nSilva<\/a> last year. Mitchell has since won both outings in his new
\ndivision. Mitchell feels he is a natural bantamweight and is
\nthankful that he isn\u2019t facing featherweights, who weigh a lot
\nheavier than him on fight night. Mitchell said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m just less undersized [at bantamweight]. I don\u2019t think
\nthat I\u2019m the bigger guy in there. I just think that I\u2019m used to
\nbeing the smaller guy, but now I\u2019m just medium size. So, it makes
\nme look bigger. Thank God I\u2019m not fighting guys that are 200
\npounds. I\u2019m a real \u201835er.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI’m really grateful, especially to get the
\nfinish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bryce Mitchell (@ThugnastyMMA<\/a>)
\nis feeling more and more comfortable as a bantamweight and was able
\nto secure the late submission win.
\n#UFCVegas118<\/a><\/p>\n

Complete Main Card Results \u27a1\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/3BH6JfxG3Z<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/8lJJgI38VL<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 UFC News (@UFCNews)
\nJune 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Bryce Mitchell feels like he belongs in the bantamweight division. Mitchell (19-3) was originally scheduled to fight Victor Henry at UFC Fight Night 278 on Saturday. However, Henry was forced out with an injury and replaced by a previously undefeated Santiago Luna (8-1) on short notice. Mitchell dominated Luna on the ground throughout the fight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38692","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\/38692","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=38692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}