{"id":155258,"date":"2025-09-19T22:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155258\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:08:11","slug":"tom-aspinall-leaning-toward-alexander-volkov-to-beat-jailton-almeida-at-ufc-321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155258\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall leaning toward Alexander Volkov to beat Jailton Almeida at UFC 321"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall<\/a> will have his eyes pealed for a pivotal clash in his division at UFC 321.<\/p>\n

Alexander Volkov (38-11 MMA, 12-5 UFC) takes on Jailton Almeida (13-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) in a potential No. 1 contender bout Oct. 25 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

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Aspinall holds a quick submission finish over Volkov in their March 2022 headliner<\/a>, but Volkov has since won four of his past five \u2013 most recently a controversial decision loss to Ciryl Gane at UFC 310<\/a>. Despite that setback, Aspinall is siding with the Russian.<\/p>\n

“That’s how I see it, and I think that’s pretty obvious,” Aspinall told Bloody Elbow<\/a> of Volkov vs. Almeida being No. 1 contender. “I actually thought that Volkov won the fight against Gane, to be honest. I think Volkov is in really good form right now. I do think Almeida is good. I’ve not seen enough of Almeida’s game to say how good he actually is. At this point, it’s hard to say, but I would favor Volkov in that one.”<\/p>\n

Aspinall competes on the same night when he makes his first heavyweight title defense against former interim champion Gane (13-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) in the UFC 321 main event.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Tom Aspinall: Alexander Volkov beats Jailton Almeida at UFC 321<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall will have his eyes pealed for a pivotal clash in his division at UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[103647,64,63,786,103648,785,85,799,787],"class_list":["post-155258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alexander-volkov","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-jailton-almeida","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-tom-aspinall","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155258","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=155258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}