{"id":445002,"date":"2026-01-29T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445002\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:12:10","slug":"ufc-325-video-alexander-volkanovski-vs-diego-lopes-2-presser-faceoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445002\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 325 video: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Diego Lopes 2 presser faceoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> 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> sized each other up once again Thursday after the <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> pre-fight press conference.<\/p>\n<p>With <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> sidelined, an interim belt will be up for grabs when Gaethje (26-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC) clashes with Pimblett (23-3 MMA, 7-0 UFC) in Saturday&#8217;s main event at T-Mobile Arena (<a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/6yoorr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paramount+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paramount+<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The featherweights run back their first meeting from UFC 314, where Volkanovski (27-4 MMA, 14-3 UFC) won the vacant title by winning a unanimous decision over Lopes (27-7 MMA, 6-2 UFC). This time around, the champ gets to fight on home soil as he looks to notch the first defense of his second reign.<\/p>\n<p>Volkanovski gifted Lopes his &#8220;Cookin&#8217; with Volk&#8221; apron after they shared a shirtless faceoff.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video above to see the Volkanovski vs. Lopes staredown from the UFC 325 pre-fight press conference.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/01\/29\/ufc-325-video-alexander-volkanovski-vs-diego-lopes-2-presser-faceoff\/88408488007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 325 video: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Diego Lopes 2 presser faceoff;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 325 video: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Diego Lopes 2 presser faceoff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes sized each other up once again Thursday after the UFC 325 pre-fight press&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[34341,64,63,44864,786,17499,785,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-445002","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-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445002","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=445002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}