{"id":8520,"date":"2026-05-10T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/8520\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:58:22","slug":"steve-erceg-names-potential-opponents-after-ufc-perth-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/8520\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Erceg names potential opponents after UFC Perth win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve
\nErceg<\/a> is eyeing two very stylistically different opponents for
\nhis next fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Erceg is coming off a unanimous decision win over Tim Elliott<\/a>
\nat UFC Perth<\/a>
\nearlier this month. \u201cAstro Boy\u201d has been watching suggestions about
\nhis next potential opponents. Amir Albazi<\/a>
\nand Brandon
\nRoyval<\/a> are two of the most suggested names for Erceg, which
\nmakes sense to the Australian. Erceg notes that Albazi and Royval
\nare two stylistically different matchups but he is willing to face
\neither.<\/p>\n

Ready and Willing
\n
\n\u201cI have watching and looking up posts of who people think I should
\nfight,\u201d Erceg told heavywgtMMA<\/a>. \u201cTwo that were brought up were Amir Albazi<\/a>
\nand Brandon
\nRoyval<\/a>. I think they are both coming off losses but they are
\nranked ahead of me. So I think it would be a good time to meet
\neither one of them. They are obviously two very different fighters.
\nMeet up and let\u2019s have a crash.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Erceg (14-4) went on a three-fight slump starting with his failed
\ntitle bid against Alexandre
\nPantoja<\/a> in 2024. While Erceg rebounded with a win over Ode
\nOsbourne<\/a> last year, it wasn\u2019t a satisfactory performance for
\nthe Australian. Erceg finally had some \u201crelief\u201d after putting on a
\nstriking masterclass en route to a unanimous decision win over
\nElliott at UFC Perth.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, both Albazi (17-3) and Royval (17-9) are coming off back
\nto back losses. While Albazi has dropped two straight against
\nBrandon
\nMoreno<\/a> and Kyoji
\nHoriguchi<\/a>, Royval is coming off losses against Joshua Van<\/a>
\nand Manel
\nKape<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Erceg is eyeing two very stylistically different opponents for his next fight.\u00a0 Erceg is coming off a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2655,2656,152,335],"class_list":["post-8520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-article","tag-https-www-sherdog-com-news-news-ufc","tag-news","tag-perth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}