{"id":34646,"date":"2026-11-13T06:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T06:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=34646"},"modified":"2026-11-13T06:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T06:32:11","slug":"welterweight-veterans-reportedly-set-for-ufc-dallas-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=34646","title":{"rendered":"Welterweight veterans reportedly set for UFC Dallas clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/>\n        The<br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship\u2019s first event of 2027 is<br \/>\ngradually taking shape.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff<br \/>\nNeal and Chris<br \/>\nCurtis are reportedly set to collide at UFC<br \/>\nDallas on Jan. 16 at American Airlines Center.<\/p>\n<h2>Geoff Neal and Chris Curtis look to get back on track in<br \/>\nDallas<\/h2>\n<p>\nAccording to Marcel Dorff, Neal and Curtis will clash at UFC<br \/>\nDallas, the UFC\u2019s first event of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Neal (16-8) has dropped four of his last five bouts, with the only<br \/>\nwin coming against Rafael dos<br \/>\nAnjos due to an injury. While \u201cHandz of Steel\u201d was scheduled to<br \/>\nfight Chidi<br \/>\nNjokuani at UFC<br \/>\n330 this past August, he pulled out due to an undisclosed<br \/>\ninjury.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Curtis (32-13, 1 NC) has lost three of his last four<br \/>\nbouts. \u201cThe Action Man\u201d is coming off a decision defeat to<br \/>\nMyktykbek Orolbai.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Geoff Neal<br \/>\nvs. Chris<br \/>\nCurtis #UFCDallas &#8211; January 16th. https:\/\/t.co\/7YfFIfrORP<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marcel Dorff \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\udde9 (@BigMarcel24)<br \/>\nNovember 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Welterweight-veterans-reportedly-set-for-UFC-Dallas-clash-203610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ultimate Fighting Championship\u2019s first event of 2027 is gradually taking shape. Geoff Neal and Chris Curtis are reportedly set to collide at UFC Dallas on Jan. 16 at American Airlines Center. Geoff Neal and Chris Curtis look to get back on track in Dallas According to Marcel Dorff, Neal and Curtis will clash at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[78,2674,2161,774,42,6317,762],"class_list":["post-34646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fighters","tag-clash","tag-dallas","tag-reportedly","tag-set","tag-ufc","tag-veterans","tag-welterweight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}