{"id":447448,"date":"2026-02-01T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447448\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:00:08","slug":"alexander-volkanovski-discusses-his-future-after-ufc-325-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447448\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkanovski discusses his future after UFC 325 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski has spoken about his future in the wake of his big win at UFC 325.<\/p>\n

Last night in the main event of UFC 325, Alexander Volkanovski successfully defended<\/a> his UFC featherweight championship. He defeated Diego Lopes pretty comprehensively and in doing so, he furthered his case for being considered the greatest of all time at 145 pounds.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Pros react after Alex Volkanovski defeats Diego Lopes for a second time at UFC 325<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, while that may be the case for many, Volkanovski still believes he has a lot of work left to do. There are some serious contenders emerging at featherweight right now, with the likes of Lerone Murphy and Movsar Evloev waiting patiently for their opportunity to go after \u2018The Great\u2019.<\/p>\n

In a post-fight press conference appearance in Sydney, Volkanovski gave his thoughts on what could be next for him.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Volkanovski talks about his future<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m an easy champ to understand,\u201d Volkanovski said at a post-fight news conference. \u201cIf you deserve it, you\u2019re next. \u2026 I\u2019ve got a responsibility. I talk about having a responsibility as a champion. I don\u2019t think enough champions look at it that way. For me, I look at it as a responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are rankings for a reason, people that deserve it. If someone does get in, I\u2019ll still be active enough to give the people that deserve it a chance anyway, so they don\u2019t have to wait that long. But if I\u2019m just going to keep letting other people cut the line, then I\u2019m not really doing my part either. I\u2019ll talk to the UFC and see what they say. But for me, again I\u2019m an easy champion at the end of the day. If the UFC pushes it or whatever, all right. We\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quotes via MMA Junkie<\/a><\/p>\n

Who do you want to see him fight? Let us know your thoughts in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski has spoken about his future in the wake of his big win at UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-447448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447448","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=447448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}