{"id":439666,"date":"2026-01-28T23:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/439666\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:45:07","slug":"alexander-volkanovski-shuts-down-jean-silva-title-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/439666\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkanovski shuts down Jean Silva title talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Brazilian fan-favorite Jean Silva scored the biggest win of his career at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-324-news-results-paramount-streaming-updates-mma\/414187\/ufc-324-live-results-highlights-play-by-play-gaethje-vs-pimblett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 324<\/a> last weekend (Sat., Jan. 24, 2026), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-324-news-results-paramount-streaming-updates-mma\/417341\/ufc-324-results-jean-silva-scrapes-past-durable-arnold-allen-in-pivotal-back-and-forth-brawl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outworking the ultra-durable<\/a> Arnold Allen to a unanimous decision victory inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The win immediately launched Silva into the division\u2019s elite and title conversation, and he didn\u2019t waste time capitalizing on the moment. Following the bout, Silva <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-324-news-results-paramount-streaming-updates-mma\/417804\/jean-silva-wants-the-winner-of-volkanovski-vs-lopes-at-ufc-325-whos-the-next-guy-im-gonna-surf-on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called for the winner<\/a> of this weekend\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/408597\/ufc-325-fight-card-volkanovski-vs-lopes-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 325 main event<\/a> in Sydney, Australia, where Alexander Volkanovski rematches Diego Lopes for the Featherweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Still, Volkanovski isn\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI thought that was going to be a real challenge for him, and he passed it \u2014 he looked really good in the later rounds as well,\u201d Volkanovski told reporters during UFC 325 media day. \u201cThat\u2019s what you want to see from a prospect against a guy like Arnold. Arnold\u2019s calculated, he\u2019s fit, he\u2019s got cardio \u2014 and Silva showed he could match that and still get the win. It was promising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Praise aside, the champ drew a firm line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHas he earned a title shot just yet? I don\u2019t think so,\u201d Volkanovski added. \u201cI think you\u2019re going to get Movsar and Lerone fighting \u2014 and that obviously makes the most sense for me. When you look at their records and resumes, legacy-wise, that looks great for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When Volk speaks, the UFC listens \u2026 right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For now, though, Volkanovski has business to handle. Lopes awaits this weekend, and regardless of future contenders, the reigning champ knows better than to look past a dangerous opponent standing directly in front of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Brazilian fan-favorite Jean Silva scored the biggest win of his career at UFC 324&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,182216,139445,702],"class_list":["post-439666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-325","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439666","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=439666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}