{"id":412556,"date":"2023-02-14T04:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T09:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412556"},"modified":"2023-02-14T04:32:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T09:32:30","slug":"volkanovski-remains-ufcs-top-pound-for-pound-fighter-despite-loss","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/volkanovski-remains-ufcs-top-pound-for-pound-fighter-despite-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkanovski remains UFC&#8217;s top pound-for-pound fighter despite loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the main event of UFC 284 between Russia&#8217;s Islam Malkhachev and Australia&#8217;s Alexander Volkanovski being promoted as a fight to determine the UFC\u2019s top pound-for-pound fighter, it may come as a large surprise to many to learn that top two slots remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-412557\" src=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ufc-rankings.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"818\" height=\"686\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Malkhachev\u2019s unanimously defeated Volkanovski but still the Autsralian would keep the top spot in the rankings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UFC rankings: Alexander Volkanovski maintains No. 1 pound-for-pound slot despite loss to Islam Makhachev<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4IPJ0xDynp\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/4IPJ0xDynp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i1fq9dI544\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/i1fq9dI544<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MMA UNDERGROUND (@theUG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theUG\/status\/1625364055513829377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Russian had considered his placement at the number 1 pound-for-pound position a foregone conclusion after beating Volkanovski, but this has proven not to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>Another change this week has seen Jon Jones (number 10) swap places with Jiri Prochazka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the main event of UFC 284 between Russia&#8217;s Islam Malkhachev and Australia&#8217;s Alexander Volkanovski being promoted as a fight to determine the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412558,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17371,17372,17494],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Russian grappler Malkhachev unanimously defeated the Australian","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412556"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412556"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}