Volkanovski Thinks Holloway Earned UFC Lightweight Title Shot<\/p>\n
Reigning UFC Lightweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski hopped on his YouTube channel<\/a> to share his belief that Max Holloway deserves a rematch with Ilia Topuria. He also believes the circumstances are a bit different this time (via MMAFighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cI know Max just fought him, but now it\u2019s at lightweight where they both sort of want to be,\u201d Volkanovski said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to think of who Max beat at lightweight. You\u2019ve gotta go off the lightweight fights. Max beat Justin Gaethje, who I think is the No. 1 contender, and Poirier, who just fought for the title. So he literally beat the two top guys, the two main guys that you usually need to beat to get the title shot. That\u2019s his only fights in lightweight \u2014 his streak right now \u2014 and it\u2019s against the two top guys. You\u2019d say he\u2019s next. You would think so.<\/p>\n \u201cOr Arman. Obviously, Arman was there. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s the deal with that. Paddy Pimblett, they did the faceoff. There\u2019s a bit of bad blood. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s happening, I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s locked in. But with Max, Max\u2019s next fight could probably be for the title. I think that would be fair.\u201d<\/p>\n Topuria, the reigning UFC Lightweight Champion, is the first fighter to knock Holloway out in a pro MMA bout. In the process, \u201cEl Matador\u201d successfully defended the UFC Featherweight Championship before vacating the gold. At the end of June, Topuria knocked out Charles Oliveira to capture the 155-pound title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volkanovski Thinks Holloway Earned UFC Lightweight Title Shot Reigning UFC Lightweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski hopped on his YouTube…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-11715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}