{"id":946369,"date":"2026-10-30T12:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946369\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T12:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:36:21","slug":"alexander-volkanovski-is-special-movsar-evloev-just-isnt-mma-rankings-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946369\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkanovski is special; Movsar Evloev just isn&#8217;t: MMA rankings October 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Color me unsurprised that Alexander Volkanovski once again returned Down Under with gold still around his waist.<\/p>\n<p>Was age (38) working against him? Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Has his chin been checked a few times the last three years? Sure.<\/p>\n<p>Was opponent Movsar Evloev a bona fide top contender in an era when those don\u2019t always get the title shot? Mhmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Color me unsurprised that Alexander Volkanovski once again returned Down Under with gold still around his waist. Was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[34341,64,63,786,785,85,735,787],"class_list":["post-946369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alexander-volkanovski","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946369","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=946369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}