{"id":1663,"date":"2023-07-09T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2023-07-09T22:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T21:59:36","slug":"the-first-words-exchanged-between-alexander-volkanovski-and-ilia-topuria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/the-first-words-exchanged-between-alexander-volkanovski-and-ilia-topuria\/","title":{"rendered":"The first words exchanged between Alexander Volkanovski and Ilia Topuria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Alexander Volkanovski already knows who to turn to for the rest of his career and showed it yesterday with a face-to-face with Ilia Topuria.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">What a huge performance from Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 290, he made short work of Yair Rodriguez.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ilia Topuria Confronts Alexander Volkanovski!!\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nI9Y1qc5-lc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">He shone and showed the world that he was still the dominating king at featherweight and had no rivals in that category.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_30652\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hMefzwor6yE?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cYou\u2019re a little bit taller\u2026! Eh mate! You can actually see what happened tonight!\u201d Volkanovski said to Topuria.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 26-year-old kept an intense stare and stayed in Volkanovski\u2019s face to mouth a few words. However, the champion refused to engage further and moved on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">However, one suitor remains confident he can end the reign of Alexander &#8216;The Great&#8217;, Ilia Topuria.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">They faced each other right after the Australian&#8217;s fight.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Find UFC 290 results here.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Watch the face-off between Alexander Volkanovski and Ilia Topuria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_83172\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lZ5pwuCKm78?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"lRu31\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Some words were exchanged by the two featherweight fighters.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">One thing is for sure, they are direct towards each other.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"UdTY9 WdefRb\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-location=\"2\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Volkanovski already knows who to turn to for the rest of his career and showed it yesterday with a face-to-face with Ilia Topuria. What a huge performance from Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 290, he made short work of Yair Rodriguez. He shone and showed the world that he was still the dominating king at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663"}],"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=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}