{"id":416973,"date":"2023-02-22T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=416973"},"modified":"2023-02-22T11:06:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:06:59","slug":"volkanovski-calls-for-immediate-title-rematch-with-makhachev","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/volkanovski-calls-for-immediate-title-rematch-with-makhachev\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkanovski calls for immediate title rematch with Makhachev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undisputed UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski of Australia has called for an immediate title re-run with lightweight division pacesetter Islam Makhachev, having previously dropped a close, unanimous decision loss to the Russian grappler earlier this month at UFC 284.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let\u2019s run it back and give the people what they want! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAKHACHEVMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MAKHACHEVMMA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/clkz93ldaM\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/clkz93ldaM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Volkanovski (@alexvolkanovski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexvolkanovski\/status\/1628318637571592192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s run it back and give the people what they want! @MAKHACHEVMMA (Islam Makhachev),\u201d Alexander Volkanovski wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Volkanovski, the current undisputed featherweight champion, headlined UFC 284 earlier this month in Perth \u2013 taking on Dagestan native, Makhachev for the latter\u2019s undisputed lightweight crown.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering a close, unanimous decision loss \u2013 which also came as the New South Wales native\u2019s first under the banner of the UFC, Volkanovski immediately called for a title re-run with the Russian in the aftermath of the Australia event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undisputed UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski of Australia has called for an immediate title re-run with lightweight division pacesetter Islam Makhachev, having previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":416975,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17371],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"\"Give the people what they want\", said 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\/416973"}],"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=416973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416973"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=416973"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=416973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}