{"id":354,"date":"2022-10-11T00:57:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T23:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=354"},"modified":"2022-10-11T06:09:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T05:09:54","slug":"ufc-champion-alexander-volkanovski-reveals-hes-the-lightweight-title-fight-backup-for-charles-oliveira-vs-islam-makhachev-in-a-quest-to-become-a-two-division-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/ufc-champion-alexander-volkanovski-reveals-hes-the-lightweight-title-fight-backup-for-charles-oliveira-vs-islam-makhachev-in-a-quest-to-become-a-two-division-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski reveals he&#8217;s the lightweight title-fight backup for Charles Oliveira vs. Islam Makhachev \u2013 in a quest to become a two-division champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">UFC featherweight champion\u00a0Alexander Volkanovski&#8217;s quest to be a two-division champion could soon become a reality, with the Australian announcing he will be the backup fighter for the lightweight title bout at UFC 280.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s Official, I\u2019m the back up fighter for the Light Weight title! <br \/>See you all in Abu Dhabi \ud83d\udc4a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC280?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC280<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KkRCv1N04Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/KkRCv1N04Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Volkanovski (@alexvolkanovski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexvolkanovski\/status\/1579567217796349952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 34-year-old Wollongong native is ranked No. 1 in the official pound-for-pound rankings, hasn&#8217;t lost a fight since 2013 &#8211; and soon may add the lightweight crown to his featherweight title to bolster his growing legacy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_16188\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sq8p0Qg2vbs?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<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Volkanovski revealed on his YouTube channel and\u00a0Twitter\u00a0that he will be on standby if\u00a0Charles Oliveira\u00a0or\u00a0Islam Makhachev\u00a0can not make it to the main event\u00a0later this month in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC featherweight champion\u00a0Alexander Volkanovski&#8217;s quest to be a two-division champion could soon become a reality, with the Australian announcing he will be the backup fighter for the lightweight title bout at UFC 280. It\u2019s Official, I\u2019m the back up fighter for the Light Weight title! See you all in Abu Dhabi \ud83d\udc4a #UFC280https:\/\/t.co\/KkRCv1N04Y &mdash; Alex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354","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\/354"}],"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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}