{"id":519342,"date":"2026-03-07T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519342\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:25:08","slug":"ufc-328-adding-alexander-volkov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519342\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 328 adding Alexander Volkov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/empiresportsmedia.com\/category\/mma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 328 <\/a>goes down in Newark on May 9th and tonight, we learned of a big time heavyweight matchup that\u2019s being added to that card. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/leoguimaraesmma\/status\/2030065331117424871\" rel=\"nofollow\">Leo Guimaraes<\/a> broke the news this evening that top five heavyweight contenders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapology.com\/fightcenter\/fighters\/alexander-volkov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alexander Volkov <\/a>(39-11) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapology.com\/fightcenter\/fighters\/92314-waldo-cortes-acosta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Waldo Cortes-Acosta<\/a> (17-2) will fight on the main card. <\/p>\n<p>This could be a matchup that has title implications in the heavyweight division. While not confirmed, the White House card in June is likely going to feature Alex Pereira fighting for an interim or undisputed heavyweight title. Depending on Tom Aspinall\u2019s recovery, the winner of this fight in May could present the next challenger. <\/p>\n<p>Starting with Volkov, he\u2019s coming off a split decision win over Jailton Almeida. That win followed a controversial split decision loss to Ciryl Gane in which many believed he won. That loss to Gane snapped a four-fight win streak for Volkov. <\/p>\n<p>Now, he\u2019ll take on Cortes-Acosta. Cortes-Acosta took on Derrick Lewis at UFC 324 on the first Paramount card and he knocked him out in the second round. It was his third straight win by finish after he lost to Sergei Pavlovich last August. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8afdd58ed44e26340fbf2746d7cfcf55b40dc9e6e8a6f1b49908d41b87140365.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tMy  name  is  Daniel,  and  I  love  MMA.  My  goal  is  provide  the  best  possible  coverage  of  the  MMA  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/empiresportsmedia.com\/author\/draycunningham\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Cunningham<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 328 goes down in Newark on May 9th and tonight, we learned of a big time heavyweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-519342","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\/519342","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=519342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}