{"id":40837,"date":"2026-09-30T02:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Marcus-McGhee-says-UFC-has-pushed-me-back-since-Petr-Yan-fight-203009"},"modified":"2026-09-30T02:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:07:15","slug":"marcus-mcghee-says-ufc-has-pushed-me-back-since-petr-yan-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/marcus-mcghee-says-ufc-has-pushed-me-back-since-petr-yan-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus McGhee says UFC has \u2018pushed me back\u2019 since Petr Yan fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
<\/div>\n

Marcus
\nMcGhee<\/a> believes the biggest fight of his career halted his
\nmomentum.<\/p>\n

McGhee (11-2) went undefeated in his first four
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> outings before taking a massive
\nstep up in competition against Petr Yan<\/a> last
\nyear. Yan earned a unanimous decision over McGhee and went on to
\nwin the bantamweight title against Merab
\nDvalishvili<\/a> in his next fight.<\/p>\n

\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe Maniac\u201d claims the promotion has held him back since that
\nresult, but he doesn\u2019t know why.<\/p>\n

Marcus McGhee questions his UFC matchmaking ahead of UFC
\n332<\/h2>\n

McGhee returned to the win column in June against unranked John
\nYannis<\/a>, who is now 1-2 in the UFC. He is scheduled to return at
\nUFC
\n332<\/a> on Oct. 3 against Bernardo
\nSopai<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McGhee admits that he accepted the matchup against Sopai (13-3) to
\nstay active. He believes the loss to Yan led to the recent decline
\nin his level of opposition and that the UFC has been pushing him
\nback since the defeat.<\/p>\n

In an interview ahead of his Octagon return, McGhee pointed to
\nPayton
\nTalbott<\/a> co-headlining UFC 332 and Raoni
\nBarcelos<\/a> headlining
\nUFC Vegas 121<\/a> on Saturday while questioning the UFC\u2019s
\nmatchmaking process.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeems like it hindered me,\u201d McGhee told Full Send MMA. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t
\neven say [ranked opponents] are not ready to fight. I just think
\nthat the UFC decides who they want to fight and who they don\u2019t want
\nto fight. Because me and Payton Talbott are both on this card.
\nRaoni Barcelos fought last week. There\u2019s plenty of guys that are
\navailable, but they make their matchups for whatever reason they
\nmake their matchups\u2026 But I do feel like they have been pushing me
\nback since [the Petr Yan] fight. So, I\u2019m gonna keep doing my job,
\nkeep showing up, keep winning these fights.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

Marcus
\nMcGhee<\/a> expresses frustration with the lack of activity and
\nadmits the Petr Yan<\/a>
\nmatchup might have played a part<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it\u2019s hindered me. Talbott is on this card, Barcelos
\nfought last week, there\u2019s guys available. I feel like I\u2019ve been
\npushed back since that fight\u201d pic.twitter.com\/vkZ0wLqHvG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 FULL SEND MMA (@full_send_mma)
\nSeptember 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/center> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marcus McGhee believes the biggest fight of his career halted his momentum. McGhee (11-2) went undefeated in his first four Ultimate Fighting Championship outings before taking a massive step up in competition against Petr Yan last year. Yan earned a unanimous decision over McGhee and went on to win the bantamweight title against Merab Dvalishvili […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40837","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\/40837","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=40837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}