{"id":449397,"date":"2026-02-02T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449397\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:16:08","slug":"alex-volkanovskis-next-fight-bookies-back-movsar-evloev-after-ufc-325","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449397\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Volkanovski\u2019s next fight? Bookies back Movsar Evloev after UFC 325"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Who will Volkanovski fight next?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/sportsbook\/futures-and-props\/mma-futures\/next-opponent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BetOnline.ag<\/a> has undefeated featherweight contender Movsar Evloev as the current frontrunner at 1\/1 (+100), followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-325-results-volkanovski-lopes-2\/419616\/alexander-volkanovski-reacts-to-jean-silva-after-ufc-325-win-i-dont-know-why-hes-so-butt-hurt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cbutt hurt\u201d<\/a> Brazilian fan favorite Jean Silva at 7\/4 (+175) and British bruiser Lerone Murphy at 3\/1 (+300). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\/417947\/ufc-releases-first-official-rankings-update-paramount-era-big-moves-justin-gaethje-jean-silva\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top lightweight contender<\/a> Amran Tsarukyan is far behind at 10\/1 (+1000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Probably because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/409421\/did-arman-tsarukyan-finally-confess-to-ufc-311-weight-miss-we-didnt-miss-weight-like-last-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIf it\u2019s the featherweight division, it\u2019s got to be the top guys,\u201d Volkanovski said on UFC 325\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/c\/482924\/175360\/3065?subId1=SBNation&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paramountplus.com%2Frecommended%2Fnews%2F1010954%2Fufc-paramount-plus-streaming-deal&amp;subId2=[sb0202awD][413051][][r][][][][][][][mmamania.com]\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a> post-fight show. \u201cYou know what I\u2019m like. I want to fight the top guys who deserve it. You\u2019ve got Movsar and Lerone Murphy. I\u2019ve been told they\u2019re going to face each other. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s just rumors. That\u2019ll be great. I\u2019ll be watching that. If the next one is definitely featherweight, it\u2019s got to be one of those two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dThere are rankings for a reason, people that deserve it,\u201d Volkanovski added at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-press-conference-video\/419047\/watch-ufc-325-post-fight-press-conference-live-stream-video-volkanovski-vs-lopes-paramount-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 325 post-fight press conference<\/a>. \u201cIf 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more UFC 325 news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-325-results-volkanovski-lopes-2\/419114\/ufc-325-results-hub-live-updates-video-highlights-volk-vs-lopes-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who will Volkanovski fight next? BetOnline.ag has undefeated featherweight contender Movsar Evloev as the current frontrunner at 1\/1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,182216,139445,702,17056,4454],"class_list":["post-449397","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","tag-ufc-odds","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449397","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=449397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}