{"id":863779,"date":"2026-08-22T00:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863779\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:34:17","slug":"alex-volkanovski-done-fighting-if-things-go-terribly-wrong-at-ufc-333","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863779\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Volkanovski \u2018done\u2019 fighting \u2018if things go terribly wrong\u2019 at UFC 333"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Volkanovski turns 38 in just a few weeks and has been through some absolute wars in his UFC career, which include epic showdowns against all-time greats like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2022\/6\/27\/23184914\/ufc-276-defiant-max-holloway-insists-he-won-both-volkanovski-fights-because-were-here-third-time-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Holloway<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/10\/15\/23918536\/islam-makhachev-and-khabib-nurmagomedov-review-first-volkanovski-war-the-hardest-fight-of-my-life\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Islam Makhachev<\/a>, just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 28-4 Aussie is currently coming off back-to-back decisions wins over Diego Lopes and will return to the Octagon for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-odds\/465742\/ufc-333-odds-open-volkanovski-evloev-yan-dvalishvili-title-fights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a UFC 333 title defense<\/a> opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\/465773\/charles-johnson-twists-his-way-ufc-330-rankings-update-gillian-robertson-loses-ground-strawweight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1-ranked<\/a> Movsar Evloev on Oct. 24 in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIf things go terribly wrong, alright, we\u2019re done,\u201d Volkanovski said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XvXBhoQ9vjY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. \u201cIf things go very well, like the last one, no damage, go through, alright, we\u2019ll keep it rolling. Taking each fight as it goes, just trying to be real with it. But I don\u2019t have plans on retiring right now \u2014 money\u2019s always good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In addition, his undefeated UFC 333 opponent has never finished a fight inside the Octagon and is most dangerous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-paramount-plus-news-hub-fight-cards-schedule\/430550\/alexander-volkanovski-wants-ufc-londons-movsar-evloev-next-to-debunk-dagestani-wrestling-a-lot-of-people-cant-figure-it-out\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as an offensive wrestler<\/a>, which doesn\u2019t scream \u201cfuture CTE\u201d in terms of damage incurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volkanovski turns 38 in just a few weeks and has been through some absolute wars in his UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,1647],"class_list":["post-863779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863779","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=863779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}