{"id":118387,"date":"2025-09-04T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118387\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:02:10","slug":"alexander-volkanovski-goes-on-x-rated-rant-on-the-one-ufc-fighter-he-hates-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118387\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkanovski goes on X-rated rant on the one UFC fighter he hates the most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Volkanovski calls out \u2018piece of s\u2014\u2018 fighter he hates the most<\/p>\n<p>In a recent appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H1FNt0tmoO4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Unscripted Show<\/a>, Volkanovski was asked if there was one fighter he despises the most, and he didn\u2019t hesitate to answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne fighter I can\u2019t stand? Ah mate yeah, Colby Covington, I mean that\u2019s an obvious one, it\u2019s an easy question,\u201d Volkanovski said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll make it a little bit better for you. Colby, you\u2019re a piece of s\u2014 and I dare you to come say something to my face cause I\u2019d love to slap you. He\u2019s just a piece of s\u2014.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of times (in this sport) you get idiots like him that take things too far, some of the things he has said, just like, no,\u201d Volkanovski continued. \u201cThere\u2019s pushing a fight and then there are pieces of s\u2014, and he\u2019s one of them.\u201d (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/09\/03\/alexander-volkanovski-sends-x-rated-message-to-colby-covington-as-he-calls-out-controversial-ufc-star\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, Covington hasn\u2019t responded to Volkanovski\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Covington and Volkanovski have shared a card once in their careers at UFC 245. Volkanovski defeated Holloway for the UFC featherweight title in the co-main event, before Covington lost to Kamaru Usman in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-believes-poor-instructions-from-former-att-cornermen-contributed-to-his-loss-to-kamaru-usman-at-ufc-245\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first bout of their two-fight rivalry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Volkanovski is in a light-hearted mood as he prepares for his UFC return, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/alex-volkanovski\/alexander-volkanovski-fakes-injury-prank-fan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">evidenced by a hilarious prank he played on one of his fans<\/a>. But that didn\u2019t stop Volkanovski from going off on one of the UFC\u2019s most polarizing names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkanovski calls out \u2018piece of s\u2014\u2018 fighter he hates the most In a recent appearance on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[28981,49,48,18457,641,638,82,640],"class_list":["post-118387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alexander-volkanovski","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-colby-covington","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}