{"id":1053,"date":"2023-03-19T12:46:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T11:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2023-03-19T12:46:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T11:46:51","slug":"islam-makhachev-calls-for-welterweight-title-fight-with-leon-edwards-after-ufc-286-i-want-him-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/islam-makhachev-calls-for-welterweight-title-fight-with-leon-edwards-after-ufc-286-i-want-him-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev calls for welterweight title fight with Leon Edwards after UFC 286: \u2018I want him next\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Undisputed UFC lightweight champion, Islam Makhachev has called for the opportunity to avenge his Dominance MMA stablemate, Kamaru Usman following his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/?s=UFC+286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/?s=UFC+286\">UFC 286<\/a>\u00a0title trilogy rubber match loss to Leon Edwards tonight in London \u2013 seeking an October welterweight championship bout in Abu Dhabi, UAE.<\/h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I want Leon next, October in Abu Dhabi \ud83d\udc4a\ud83c\udffc<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Makhachev Islam (@MAKHACHEVMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAKHACHEVMMA\/status\/1637244162662596608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Makhachev, the undisputed lightweight champion, defended his crown for the first time back in February of this year at UFC 284 \u2013 besting featherweight gold holder, Alexander Volkanovski in a close, unanimous decision victory.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/2023\/03\/19\/ufc-286-leon-edwards-keeps-his-title-against-a-slow-moving-kamaru-usman\/\">UFC 286: Leon Edwards keeps his title against a slow-moving Kamaru Usman | MMA MAG<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">As for Edwards, the Birmingham native bookended his rivalry with former champion, Usman tonight \u2013 landing himself an even closer majority decision (48-46, 48-46, 47-47) victory over the Nigerian on home soil in England.<\/h4>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_1_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-1 adthrive-ad-cls\" data-google-query-id=\"CM_s9e_y5_0CFYZIHQkdXBACJg\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undisputed UFC lightweight champion, Islam Makhachev has called for the opportunity to avenge his Dominance MMA stablemate, Kamaru Usman following his\u00a0UFC 286\u00a0title trilogy rubber match loss to Leon Edwards tonight in London \u2013 seeking an October welterweight championship bout in Abu Dhabi, UAE. I want Leon next, October in Abu Dhabi \ud83d\udc4a\ud83c\udffc &mdash; Makhachev Islam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}