{"id":366829,"date":"2025-12-24T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366829\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:39:08","slug":"magomed-ankalaevs-manager-jiri-prochazka-ticket-for-next-ufc-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366829\/","title":{"rendered":"Magomed Ankalaev’s manager: Jiri Prochazka ticket for next UFC title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rizvan Magomedov sees one particular fight that could get Magomed Ankalaev<\/a> back in the UFC title picture.<\/p>\n

Ankalaev (21-2-1 MMA, 12-2-1 UFC) lost his light heavyweight belt to Alex Pereira at UFC 320<\/a> in October. Ankalaev won their first fight at UFC 313<\/a> by lopsided decision but was quickly knocked out in their rematch.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Pereira (13-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) appears more interested in a fight with Jon Jones over a trilogy with Ankalaev. But if Ankalaev has to work his way back, his manager likes the idea of Jiri Prochazka (32-5-1 MMA, 6-2 UFC), who’s coming off back-to-back knockouts of Jamahal Hill and Khalil Rountree<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Now it’s 1-1 between him and Pereira. As we’ve seen, Alex doesn’t seem too eager to fight Magomed a third time, but we’ll push for it,” Magomedov told MMA Arena (h\/t Red Corner MMA<\/a>). “Magomed needs to have one fight in between, for example, against\u00a0Jiri Prochazka. That would be a great stepping stone to the next title shot.”<\/p>\n

Ankalaev was dealing with a rib injury<\/a> heading into the Pereira rematch, but Magomedov insists he wasn’t pressured to fight.<\/p>\n

“No, the UFC never acts like tyrants,” Magomedov said. “Of course, the machine has to keep moving, and fights have to happen, but I don’t recall the UFC ever forcing anyone to fight if the athlete wasn’t ready due to health issues.”<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Magomed Ankalaev’s manager eyes ‘great stepping stone’ for title shot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rizvan Magomedov sees one particular fight that could get Magomed Ankalaev back in the UFC title picture. Ankalaev…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[11038,49,48,641,48473,30467,638,157169,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-366829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alex-pereira","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-jiri-prochazka","13":"tag-magomed-ankalaev","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-rizvan-magomedov","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366829","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=366829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}