{"id":438792,"date":"2026-01-26T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438792\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:44:08","slug":"video-ufc-325-countdown-for-alexander-volkanovski-vs-diego-lopes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438792\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: UFC 325 &#8216;Countdown&#8217; for Alexander Volkanovski vs. Diego Lopes 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you miss the debut of UFC 325\u00a0&#8220;Countdown&#8221; or just want to watch it again? Check out the main event preview now.<\/p>\n<p>The segment takes a special look at the\u00a0featherweight title rematch between champion <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> (27-4 MMA, 14-3 UFC) and <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/diego-lopes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Diego Lopes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Diego Lopes<\/a> (27-7 MMA, 6-2 UFC). Volkanovski beat Lopes in April 2025 to reclaim the 145-pound title, which had been vacated by <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/ilia-topuria\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ilia Topuria;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ilia Topuria<\/a>. Lopes knocked out Jean Silva this past fall to get the rematch.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>UFC 325 (Paramount+) takes place Saturday at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. &#8220;Countdown&#8221; goes behind the scenes with the two fighters, and you can watch the full segment above. And don&#8217;t miss the entire episode in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/01\/26\/ufc-325-title-preview-video-alexander-volkanovski-vs-diego-lopes-2\/88353545007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 325 title preview video: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Diego Lopes 2;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 325 title preview video: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Diego Lopes 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you miss the debut of UFC 325\u00a0&#8220;Countdown&#8221; or just want to watch it again? Check out the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[34341,64,63,44864,786,17499,44862,785,85,787,182505],"class_list":{"0":"post-438792","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-ilia-topuria","14":"tag-jean-silva","15":"tag-mma","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ufc","18":"tag-volkanovski"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438792","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=438792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}