{"id":448784,"date":"2026-01-31T04:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448784\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:10:07","slug":"ufc-325-full-fight-alexander-volkanovski-batters-yair-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448784\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 325 full fight: Alexander Volkanovski batters Yair Rodriguez"},"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>&#8216;s last title defense was an impressive one.<\/p>\n<p>Back at UFC 290 in 2023, Volkanovski completed his last title defense of his historic reign at 145 pounds. He defeated veteran Yair Rodriguez, using his wrestling and ground-and-pound to pick up a stoppage in Round 3. It was the fifth title defense of his first run as champion at featherweight, a run that cemented him as arguably the greatest of all time in the weight class.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>You can watch Volkanovski&#8217;s dominant title win over Rodriguez in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>Volkanovski (27-4 MMA, 14-3 UFC) returns to the cage this Saturday to make his first title defense of his second stint as UFC featherweight champion. He takes on <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) in a rematch that headlines UFC 325 (<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>), which takes place at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/01\/30\/ufc-325-full-fight-alexander-volkanovski-batters-yair-rodriguez\/88382772007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 325 full fight: Alexander Volkanovski batters Yair Rodriguez;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 325 full fight: Alexander Volkanovski batters Yair Rodriguez<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkanovski&#8216;s last title defense was an impressive one. Back at UFC 290 in 2023, Volkanovski completed his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[34341,64,63,786,785,85,232193,787,232192,182505,11636],"class_list":{"0":"post-448784","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-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-title-defense","15":"tag-ufc","16":"tag-ufc-290","17":"tag-volkanovski","18":"tag-yair-rodriguez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448784","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=448784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}