{"id":990,"date":"2023-02-12T10:31:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T09:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=990"},"modified":"2023-02-12T12:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T11:49:49","slug":"with-this-win-islam-makhachev-now-has-the-longest-active-winning-streak-in-the-ufc-12-ufc284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/with-this-win-islam-makhachev-now-has-the-longest-active-winning-streak-in-the-ufc-12-ufc284\/","title":{"rendered":"With this win, Islam Makhachev now has the longest active winning streak in the UFC (12) #UFC284"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UFC featherweight champion\u00a0Alexander Volkanovski\u00a0gave lightweight champion Islam Makhachev everything he had in his attempt at becoming a double champion on Saturday at UFC 284 in Perth, Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The new world P4P #1 and NOBODY can take that away from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAKHACHEVMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MakhachevMMA<\/a> \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC284?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC284<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FLoq82H05E\">pic.twitter.com\/FLoq82H05E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1624647401809014784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_16525\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9fUd_R9IE6g?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 style=\"text-align: justify;\">It wasn&#8217;t enough, and\u00a0Makhachev won a unanimous decision\u00a0with two judges scoring the fight 48-47 and the other 49-46. In losing his shot at champ-champ, Volkanovski also lost his\u00a0mythical status as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How did you have it scored? \ud83d\udcdd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC284?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC284<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UFCNews<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/peFQMmLiW8\">pic.twitter.com\/peFQMmLiW8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN MMA (@espnmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1624654059226427393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Makhachev, who was a -375 favorite at BetMGM ahead of the fight, is now 24-1 and is riding a 12-fight winning streak. Volkanovski&#8217;s 22-fight win streak comes to an end and his record now stands at 25-2.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_25178\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w-P1co1HSYc?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 style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the co-main event,\u00a0Yair Rodriguez used a slick submission of Josh Emmett to win the interim featherweight title\u00a0and become the second Mexican-born fighter to become a UFC champion this year. Brandon Moreno won the flyweight title at UFC 283 in January.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_12134\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g59sEW6cPOI?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC featherweight champion\u00a0Alexander Volkanovski\u00a0gave lightweight champion Islam Makhachev everything he had in his attempt at becoming a double champion on Saturday at UFC 284 in Perth, Australia. The new world P4P #1 and NOBODY can take that away from @MakhachevMMA \ud83d\udcaa #UFC284 pic.twitter.com\/FLoq82H05E &mdash; UFC (@ufc) February 12, 2023 It wasn&#8217;t enough, and\u00a0Makhachev won a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-ufc-news","9":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}