{"id":1011449,"date":"2026-08-19T21:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1011449\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:16:16","slug":"yair-rodriguez-out-of-noche-ufc-main-event-jean-silva-gets-new-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1011449\/","title":{"rendered":"Yair Rodriguez out of Noche UFC main event, Jean Silva gets new opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jean Silva will now fight Jose Delgado in the main event of Noche UFC after Yair Rodriguez pulled out of the Sept. 12 card due to undisclosed reasons; multiple people with knowledge of the situation confirmed the news to MMA Fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Noche UFC will take place at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Delgado (12-2) gets his first main event assignment in his native Arizona coming off a pair of wins over Andre Fili and Austin Bashi earlier this year, earning himself a spot on the new Meta UFC rankings. Delgado was victorious in four of his UFC appearances, losing only to Nathaniel Wood in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Silva (17-3) will attempt to keep his momentum going after a decision victory over Arnold Allen in January, when he rebounded from a thrilling title eliminator loss to Diego Lopes. \u201cLord\u201d currently holds a 6-1 UFC record with four bonuses cashed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Rodriguez (20-5, 1 no contest) hasn\u2019t fought since April 2025, when he beat Patricio Pitbull via decision at UFC 314. That was also the first appearance in over a year for the former interim champion, putting an end to his two-fight losing skid against Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Damon Martin contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jean Silva will now fight Jose Delgado in the main event of Noche UFC after Yair Rodriguez pulled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1011450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[105,62,552,562,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1011449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117124254133820621","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}