{"id":395534,"date":"2022-07-04T18:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T18:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=395534"},"modified":"2022-07-04T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T18:04:30","slug":"islam-has-to-fight-at-least-once-before-challenging-for-the-title-charles-oliveira-eyes-a-champion-vs-champion-fight-against-alexander-volkanovski-for-his-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/islam-has-to-fight-at-least-once-before-challenging-for-the-title-charles-oliveira-eyes-a-champion-vs-champion-fight-against-alexander-volkanovski-for-his-return\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Islam Has to Fight at Least Once Before Challenging for the Title\u201d- Charles Oliveira Eyes a Champion vs Champion Fight Against Alexander Volkanovski for His Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UFC\u2019s lightweight division is brimming with talent at the moment. The belt is vacant at the moment, but Charles Oliveira is widely recognized as the best in the world at 155-pounds despite being officially stripped off the belt. There are a number of interesting fights that could be made for Oliveira, but the former champion has only one fight on his mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a recent interview, he said,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cYeah it is all about time to be honest. Everybody knows that I would like to fight Conor because of the money, and everybody knows that I think Islam has to fight at least once before challenging for the title and now there is Vokanovksi but the thing is, everyone wants to fight me.\u201d<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6QcnxPs44L4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oliveira was in attendance as the featherweight champion Alexander \u2018The Great\u2019 Volkanovski put on another impressive performance as he put a definitive end to his trilogy, with Max finishing the series with all three wins. In the post-fight press conference, he stated that since there were no contenders available to him at 145-pounds he would like to go up in weight and challenge for the 155-pound belt and become the fifth simultaneous two-division champion in the UFC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:-<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/i-would-have-bet-adesanya-would-have-done-something-like-that-chris-pratt-hits-out-at-israel-adesanya-for-pitter-patter-performance-against-jared-cannonier-at-ufc-276\/\">\u201cI Would Have Bet Adesanya Would Have Done Something Like That\u201d- Chris Pratt Hits Out at Israel Adesanya for \u2018Pitter Patter\u2019 Performance Against Jared Cannonier at UFC 276<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Charles Oliveira to welcome Alexander Volkanovski to lightweight?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Dariush pulled out of his fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Islam-Makhachev-76836\">Makhachev<\/a>, Dana White insisted that he would like to reschedule a fight between the two men. However, after Oliveira\u2019s win against Justin Gaethje, White changed his mind and was open to the idea of Oliveira vs Makhachev for the vacant title in Abu Dhabi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-395521 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image02-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Alexander Volkanovski\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image02-2.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image02-2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image02-2-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that Alexander Volkanovski also wants a piece of the action, there is a strong chance that Dana White might book a fight between \u2018The Great\u2019 and \u2018Do Bronx\u2019 for the vacant lightweight title and have the fight between Makhachev and Dariush rescheduled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you think Dana White will give Alexander Volkanovski a shot at the lightweight title? Let us know in the comments below!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC\u2019s lightweight division is brimming with talent at the moment. The belt is vacant at the moment, but Charles Oliveira is widely recognized as the best in the world at 155-pounds despite being officially stripped off the belt. There are a number of interesting fights that could be made for Oliveira, but the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":395540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}