{"id":875,"date":"2022-12-22T18:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=875"},"modified":"2022-12-22T21:31:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T20:31:46","slug":"once-again-alexander-volkanovsky-declares-small-size-is-an-advantage-against-islam-makhachev-i-will-fight-for-every-millimeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/once-again-alexander-volkanovsky-declares-small-size-is-an-advantage-against-islam-makhachev-i-will-fight-for-every-millimeter\/","title":{"rendered":"Once again, Alexander Volkanovsky declares: \u201cSmall size is an advantage against Islam Makhachev: \u201cI will fight for every millimeter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sub_title\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alexander Volkanovski believes his lower center of gravity will play a role in thwarting the takedown attempts of Islam Makhachev at UFC 284<\/p>\n<section class=\"postmeta\">\n<div class=\"postmeta_wraper\">\n<div class=\"postmeta_date\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski is in deep preparation for his champion vs. champion showdown come February 11th.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Volkanovski, the No. 1 ranked pound-for-pound fighter in the world, will look to add another piece of UFC gold to his mantle when he takes on newly crowned lightweight king\u00a0Islam Makhachev\u00a0in the main event of UFC 284. \u2018The Great\u2019 will go for two-division glory in his home country of Australia as the promotion heads to Perth for its second pay-per-view event of 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahead of the highly anticipated showdown, Alexander Volkanovski joined Michael Bisping on the former middleweight champion\u2019s\u00a0YouTube channel\u00a0to share some details on how he is preparing to dethrone Khabib Nurmagomedov\u2019s prized protege.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-slot-rendered-content=\"true\"><p>\u201cThis is a bigger camp than usual. I usually do an eight-week camp. I train all year round and I\u2019m usually reasonably fit, but we had a good structure from about 10-12 weeks out. We made sure we\u2019ll bring in our guys to train with and really just start nailing down on certain techniques and things that we might need to do and things like that. Usually, I don\u2019t have that type of structure until about eight weeks out so obviously I\u2019m taking this one seriously. I take every fight serious. I go above and beyond, but this one we really are going above and beyond.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Volkanovski, the most important thing is breaking down the process of Islam Makhachev\u2019s takedowns to both prevent them from happening and to recover in the event that he is put on his back during their main event clash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Volkanovski believes his lower center of gravity will play a role in thwarting the takedown attempts of Islam Makhachev at UFC 284 UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski is in deep preparation for his champion vs. champion showdown come February 11th. Volkanovski, the No. 1 ranked pound-for-pound fighter in the world, will look to add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"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=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}