{"id":40845,"date":"2026-10-02T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Vitor-Petrino-calls-out-Curtis-Blaydes-for-UFC-335-Accept-the-fight-203047"},"modified":"2026-10-02T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:20:08","slug":"vitor-petrino-calls-out-curtis-blaydes-for-ufc-335-accept-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/vitor-petrino-calls-out-curtis-blaydes-for-ufc-335-accept-the-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitor Petrino calls out Curtis Blaydes for UFC 335: \u2018Accept the fight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Vitor
\nPetrino<\/a> wants to close out 2026 against one of the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a>\u2019s top heavyweights. The
\nBrazilian has challenged Curtis
\nBlaydes<\/a> to a fight at UFC 335<\/a>,
\nscheduled for Dec. 12 in Las Vegas, and has already expressed his
\ninterest in the matchup to the promotion. Now, according to
\nPetrino, all that is missing is a response from the American for
\nnegotiations to move forward.<\/p>\n

The matchup would pit two fighters coming off victories against
\neach other, with both sitting close together in the heavyweight
\nrankings. Petrino is currently ranked No. 9, while Blaydes sits at
\nNo. 7.<\/p>\n

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Petrino wants Curtis Blaydes next after climbing to No. 9 in
\nthe UFC heavyweight rankings<\/h2>\n

At 29, Petrino is enjoying his best run since joining the UFC. The
\nMinas Gerais native has remained unbeaten since leaving the light
\nheavyweight division and moving up to heavyweight. He has won four
\nstraight fights against Austen
\nLane<\/a>, Thomas
\nPetersen<\/a>, Steven
\nAsplund<\/a> and Serghei
\nSpivac<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His victory over Spivac in August moved the Brazilian into the
\ndivision\u2019s Top 10 and opened the door for matchups against
\nhigher-ranked opponents. Petrino sees Blaydes as the ideal next
\nchallenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurtis, I\u2019m waiting for you. We\u2019re both coming off wins, we\u2019re
\nclose to each other in the rankings, and this is the fight that
\nmakes sense right now. I\u2019ve already talked to the UFC, and as far
\nas I\u2019m concerned, everything is settled. I want to fight on
\nDecember 12 in Las Vegas. Now it\u2019s up to you to accept the fight. I
\nrespect your history, but I want your spot in the rankings. If you
\nthink you\u2019re going to stay ahead of me, accept the fight and we\u2019ll
\nsettle it inside the Octagon,\u201d said the CMSystem fighter.<\/p>\n

Blaydes is coming off a victory over Waldo
\nCortes-Acosta<\/a> on Sept. 12. The American has a professional
\nrecord of 20 wins and six losses, including 13 knockout
\nvictories.<\/p>\n

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Vitor Petrino wants to close out 2026 against one of the Ultimate Fighting Championship\u2019s top heavyweights. The Brazilian has challenged Curtis Blaydes to a fight at UFC 335, scheduled for Dec. 12 in Las Vegas, and has already expressed his interest in the matchup to the promotion. Now, according to Petrino, all that is missing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40845","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\/40845","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=40845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}