UFC Vegas Preview: Barcelos vs. Rosas Jr. Headlines, TUF Finals Settle the Season
UFC Apex, Enterprise, Nevada — September 26, 2026
Sep 26 at the UFC Apex: Raoni Barcelos meets Raul Rosas Jr. at bantamweight on a card that also crowns The Ultimate Fighter's bantamweight and women's strawweight champions.
The BOXING OS Desk · Sep 21, 2026 · 4 MIN READ
- ✓Raoni Barcelos headlines against Raul Rosas Jr. at bantamweight — Sept 26, UFC Apex, on Paramount+.
- ✓The card is also The Ultimate Fighter: Team Cormier vs. Team Bisping finale, deciding the bantamweight and women's strawweight tournament winners.
- ✓Road to UFC Season 1 bantamweight winner Rinya Nakamura fights Brady Hiestand.
- ✓Co-main event: Rodolfo Vieira, a multiple-time BJJ world champion, meets Robert Bryczek at middleweight — both coming off recent losses.
UFC Fight Night: Barcelos vs. Rosas Jr. takes place September 26, 2026, at the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada, streaming on Paramount+ from 5 p.m. ET. Raoni Barcelos headlines against Raul Rosas Jr. at bantamweight. The card doubles as The Ultimate Fighter: Team Cormier vs. Team Bisping finale, crowning the season's bantamweight and women's strawweight tournament winners, and features Road to UFC Season 1 bantamweight winner Rinya Nakamura against Brady Hiestand. The co-main event is a middleweight bout between multiple-time BJJ world champion Rodolfo Vieira and Robert Bryczek, both looking to snap recent Octagon losing skids.
A main event and a finale on the same night — this card has to settle two different kinds of business.
The headliner Raoni Barcelos, a veteran bantamweight, meets Raul Rosas Jr., still one of the roster's youngest fighters but no longer a novelty act. It is a measuring-stick fight for Rosas against a durable, experienced opponent who has already been in with the division's better names.
Two tournaments end tonight This card is also The Ultimate Fighter: Team Cormier vs. Team Bisping finale — the bantamweight and women's strawweight tournament winners get crowned here, in the Apex's small room, in front of the two coaches who built the season around them. Add Road to UFC Season 1 bantamweight winner Rinya Nakamura against Brady Hiestand, and the card is unusually thick with fighters trying to turn a tournament run into a real UFC career.
The co-main Rodolfo Vieira, a multiple-time BJJ world champion who has been on the roster since 2019, fights Robert Bryczek, a 2024 UFC debutant who has gone 1-2 since. Both need a win here more than the bantamweight main event needs one from either man in it — a genuinely even bounce-back fight at middleweight.
Two tournament finals, a measuring-stick main event, and a co-main between two fighters who cannot afford another loss — a card built entirely around fighters who need this night more than the promotion needs them to have it.
Also this week: OKTAGON 94 in Frankfurt, and Takuma Inoue defends the WBC bantamweight title against Tenshin Nasukawa in a rematch.
FAQ
When and where is Barcelos vs. Rosas Jr.?+
September 26, 2026, at the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada, streaming on Paramount+ from 5 p.m. ET.
What is special about this card besides the main event?+
It doubles as The Ultimate Fighter: Team Cormier vs. Team Bisping finale, crowning the season's bantamweight and women's strawweight tournament champions.
Who is in the co-main event?+
Rodolfo Vieira, a multiple-time BJJ world champion, against Robert Bryczek at middleweight — both looking to snap recent losing skids.
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