{"id":39092,"date":"2026-07-02T04:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Mario-Bautista-explains-why-he-is-hunting-finish-against-Cory-Sandhagen-201723"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:16:40","slug":"mario-bautista-explains-why-he-is-hunting-finish-against-cory-sandhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/mario-bautista-explains-why-he-is-hunting-finish-against-cory-sandhagen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Bautista explains why he is hunting finish against Cory Sandhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mario
\nBautista<\/a> doesn\u2019t want to leave it up to the judges in his
\nupcoming fight.<\/p>\n

Bautista is set to take on Cory
\nSandhagen<\/a> in a bantamweight matchup at UFC 329<\/a>
\non July 11 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. He believes Sandhagen
\nhas a clear wrestling disadvantage against him, and plans to push
\nthe pace early.<\/p>\n

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Mario Bautista On His Game Plan For Cory Sandhagen<\/h2>\n

With his last fight being a decision loss, Bautista doesn\u2019t want to
\nlet Sandhagen use his evasive movement to bank rounds. Their
\nupcoming clash being a three-rounder, he is eager to avoid leaving
\nit to the judges.<\/p>\n

Eyeing a definitive finish, Bautista told Home of Fight: \u201cI\u2019m gonna
\nbe hunting that finish. I think it\u2019s obvious where he\u2019s not really
\nthe best, which is on the mat. So I\u2019m gonna be hunting for that
\nfinish. Pushing hard. We got three rounds. So I\u2019m gonna have to get
\non the gas right away. I can\u2019t just let him get away with a
\ndecision and run around or anything. I think it\u2019s gonna be an
\nexciting fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bautista (17-3) was riding an eight-fight winning streak, which was
\nsnapped by a unanimous decision loss to top contender Umar
\nNurmagomedov<\/a> last year. He has since rebounded with a
\nsubmission win over Vinicius
\nOliveira<\/a> this past February. Meanwhile, Sandhagen (18-6) is 1-2
\nin his last three outings and is coming off a failed title bid
\nagainst Merab
\nDvalishvili<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\ude24 \u203c\ufe0fMario
\nBautista<\/a> says he’s going to make sure to finish Cory
\nSandhagen<\/a> and not leave anything up to the judges.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what I have to do to beat him, I\u2019m going to hunt for that
\nfinish.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to get on the gas real early and make sure he doesn\u2019t
\nhave the time or ability\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/MBr4Ul3caS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight)
\nJuly 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mario Bautista doesn\u2019t want to leave it up to the judges in his upcoming fight. Bautista is set to take on Cory Sandhagen in a bantamweight matchup at UFC 329 on July 11 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. He believes Sandhagen has a clear wrestling disadvantage against him, and plans to push the pace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39092","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\/39092","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=39092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}