{"id":448621,"date":"2026-01-31T02:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448621\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T02:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:18:08","slug":"what-time-does-alexander-volkanovski-fight-diego-lopes-in-the-main-event-start-time-how-to-watch-and-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448621\/","title":{"rendered":"What time does Alexander Volkanovski fight Diego Lopes in the main event?, start time, how to watch and stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Volkanovski is looking to defend his UFC flyweight crown on Sunday when he faces Diego Lopes in a rematch of their world title fight in Las Vegas last year.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 325: Volkanovski vs Lopes 2 | SUN 1 FEB 1PM AEDT | For the first time in his storied career, UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski will defend his championship in his home city of Sydney, in a rematch with Brazil\u2019s Diego Lopes. | <a href=\"https:\/\/mainevent.kayosports.com.au\/ufc\/ufc-325?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkmma-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-mma-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Order Now with Main Event on Kayo Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This time around, it is a long-awaited homecoming for Volkanovski, who is fighting at Sydney\u2019s Qudos Bank Arena as part of a card stacked with Australian and New Zealand talent.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768365730_454_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So, what time does it all get underway?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the early prelims begin at 9am AEDT before the preliminary card at 11am. <\/p>\n<p>Australian knockout specialist and rising star Quillan Salkilld then kicks off the main card against fellow countryman Jamie Mullarkey at 1pm, with Volkanovski and Lopes expected to make their octagon walks at around 3.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>ULTIMATE GUIDE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/ufc\/ultimate-guide-to-ufc-325-full-fight-card-and-how-to-watch-in-australia\/news-story\/fd25cd8728603cc9c42ac6afd851d197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Full UFC 325 fight card and how to watch in Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkanovski is looking to defend his UFC flyweight crown on Sunday when he faces Diego Lopes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-448621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448621","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=448621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}