{"id":343237,"date":"2025-12-12T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343237\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:48:08","slug":"first-look-at-ufc-champ-alexander-volkanovski-in-street-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343237\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at UFC champ Alexander Volkanovski in &#8216;Street Fighter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A new teaser trailer has dropped for the upcoming Street Fighter movie, and it includes a first look at <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/alex-volkanovski\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alexander Volkanovski;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alexander Volkanovski<\/a> as Joe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The trailer for the film, which is set to release Oct. 16, 2026, was shown during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d-BDeU3R5ic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Game Awards 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Game Awards 2025<\/a>. It provided a quick glimpse at many of the characters in the movie, including all the big names such as Ryu (Andrew Koji), Ken (Noah Centineo), Chun-Li (Callina Liang), Balrog (50 Cent) and Blanka (Jason Momoa). WWE Superstars Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns also have roles in the film, playing Guile and Akuma, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Joe, a lesser-known character in the Street Fighter universe, Volkanovski sports a full head of flowing blonde hair, which is a sharp contrast to his real-life bald look. The American character has a championship kickboxing background, and in the fast-paced trailer, he was shown yelling in celebration while pumping out a few punches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Check out the full trailer below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/blue-corner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Blue Corner;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Blue Corner<\/a> is MMA Junkie&#8217;s blog space. If you come complaining to us that something you read here is not hard-hitting news, that&#8217;s on you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mma\/blue-corner\/2025\/12\/12\/alexander-volkanovski-joe-street-fighter-teaser-trailer\/87726924007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:A quick peek at UFC champ Alexander Volkanovski in &#039;Street Fighter&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">A quick peek at UFC champ Alexander Volkanovski in &#8216;Street Fighter&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new teaser trailer has dropped for the upcoming Street Fighter movie, and it includes a first look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[34341,84804,64,63,190184,190185,786,35102,785,49174,35912,85,84159,119372],"class_list":{"0":"post-343237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alexander-volkanovski","9":"tag-andrew-koji","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-callina-liang","13":"tag-cody-rhodes","14":"tag-fighting","15":"tag-jason-momoa","16":"tag-mma","17":"tag-noah-centineo","18":"tag-roman-reigns","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-street-fighter","21":"tag-teaser-trailer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343237","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=343237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}