{"id":330556,"date":"2025-12-06T01:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330556\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T01:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:36:07","slug":"ufc-325-video-alexander-volkanovski-vs-diego-lopes-rematch-faceoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330556\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 325 video: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Diego Lopes rematch faceoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes squared up for the first time Friday in advance of their <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-325-volkanovski-vs-lopes-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 325;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 325<\/a> featherweight title rematch.<\/p>\n<p>To the outcry of many fans and divisional contenders, the first defense of Volkanovski&#8217;s (27-4 MMA, 14-3 UFC) second 145-pound title reign will come against Lopes (27-7 MMA, 6-2 UFC), whom he just beat for the vacant belt in April, in the Jan. 31 headliner at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Although it was an action-heavy fight the first time around, Volkanovski won a <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-314-results-alexander-volkanovski-053229478.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:clear unanimous decision;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clear unanimous decision<\/a> over Lopes. The UFC opted to run the rematch after Lopes bounced back with a <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-fight-night-259-results-012431436.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:thrilling TKO finish;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thrilling TKO finish<\/a> of Jean Silva in September.<\/p>\n<p>Promotion for the sequel kicked off at the &#8220;IT&#8217;S ON&#8221; seasonal UFC press conference in Las Vegas, and after taking questions, Volkanovski and Lopes engaged in a faceoff, in which the size disparity was on display again.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video above to watch the UFC 325 main event staredown.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/12\/05\/ufc-325-video-alexander-volkanovski-diego-lopes-face-off-title-rematch\/87607334007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 325 video: Alexander Volkanovski, Diego Lopes face off for rematch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 325 video: Alexander Volkanovski, Diego Lopes face off for rematch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2013 Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes squared up for the first time Friday in advance of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[34341,64,63,44864,786,785,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-330556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alexander-volkanovski","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-diego-lopes","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330556","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=330556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}