Ufc 328 booking adds Susurkaev vs Santos, while Newark main event stays unconfirmed
Ufc 328 is set to take place at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, and the card has continued to take shape with notable additions. Yet a central gap remains: the event still has no officially confirmed main event, even as matchups shift from other cards and at least one new fight has been publicly attributed to an external report rather than a UFC announcement.
Prudential Center in Newark: UFC 328 adds Brady vs Buckley after a card change
Confirmed in the context, UFC 328 will be held at the Prudential Center in Newark. The event “recently added” a welterweight bout between Sean Brady and Joaquin Buckley, a pairing that had been slated to headline UFC Vegas 116 on April 25. The move is a concrete indicator of reshuffling at the top of a different event, while also signaling an effort to strengthen the Newark lineup.
Still, the same set of facts also underlines what is missing: despite the addition of a bout that had been positioned as a headliner elsewhere, the context states there has been “no official confirmation” of what fight will serve as UFC’s main event for its return to Newark. That places UFC 328 in a somewhat unusual posture where high-profile matchmaking activity is documented, but the central organizing detail of the card is not.
What remains unclear is whether the moved welterweight bout is being positioned as the eventual headliner or whether it is intended as a featured fight beneath a separate, still-unannounced main event. The context does not confirm any internal UFC rationale for moving the bout from UFC Vegas 116, and it does not identify any candidate main event for Newark.
UFC 328 and Léo Guimares report: Susurkaev vs Santos booked without official confirmation
Alongside the confirmed Brady–Buckley addition, the context introduces a second layer that is explicitly less settled: it states that Léo Guimares reports UFC 328 will include an undefeated middleweight, Baisangur Susurkaev, against Djorden Santos. That framing matters because it distinguishes between a card addition presented as a UFC scheduling fact and a booking presented through a report.
Susurkaev is described as one of the UFC’s fastest-rising stars who “stormed into the promotion last year. ” The context also details why he has drawn attention. He earned a UFC contract by stopping Murtaza Talha with a first-round finish that drew a rave review from UFC CEO Dana White. The same passage quantifies his finishing profile at that point: it marked his seventh first-round finish and eighth win by KO or TKO out of nine professional fights.
His early UFC run is also laid out as a documented sequence of results. After earning a contract, Susurkaev was booked “just a few days later” for his promotional debut at UFC 319 against Eric Nolan, where he won by rear-naked choke in the second round. The context then says his third UFC bout and fourth fight of 2025 came at UFC 322 against Eric McConico, where he went to a third round for only the second time in his career and improved to 10-0 with another knockout victory.
Santos is presented as a credible counterpart with his own developmental route. He, too, is described as a UFC contract winner on Dana White’s Contender Series in 2024. The context says Santos brought a 9-1 record into his Contender Series fight with Cage Warriors star Will Currie and got a contract after a decision win, characterized as “increasingly rare. ” Yet it also states that Santos’ promotional debut at UFC 313 ended in a loss, noting he “came up short against Ozzy, ” with the opponent’s name left incomplete in the provided material.
Dana White praise and an unconfirmed Newark headliner: what the booking pattern does and does not show
Viewed together, the context reveals a tension between momentum and formal clarity. On one side, the material documents active matchmaking: a bout shifted from UFC Vegas 116 to UFC 328, and a separate middleweight fight publicized through a named report. On the other side, the same context explicitly states the main event for Newark remains unconfirmed, leaving the card’s top billing unresolved even as the undercard structure becomes more detailed.
The context also shows an internal contrast in how information is presented. Brady vs Buckley is described as a recent addition to UFC 328, while Susurkaev vs Santos is framed as something “reported” by Léo Guimares. That difference creates an evidentiary split inside the same story: one fight is treated as a scheduling move already in place, while another is treated as a booking that has not been officially confirmed within the context.
For now, the record supports several confirmed points: UFC 328 is in Newark at the Prudential Center; Brady vs Buckley was originally scheduled to headline UFC Vegas 116 on April 25 and has been added to UFC 328; Susurkaev is undefeated and has multiple documented finishes, including a second-round submission win at UFC 319 and a knockout win at UFC 322 to reach 10-0. Yet the context does not confirm the main event, and it does not confirm, through an official UFC statement, the Susurkaev–Santos matchup described as a report.
The next piece of evidence that would resolve the central gap is straightforward: an official confirmation naming the UFC 328 main event and clarifying the status of Susurkaev vs Santos. If the Susurkaev booking is officially confirmed and the main event is formally announced, it would establish whether the Newark card’s recent additions were building toward a specific headliner or compensating for the absence of one.
