{"id":439473,"date":"2023-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/volkanovski-defeats-rodriguez-to-retain-featherweight-title\/"},"modified":"2023-07-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T04:00:00","slug":"volkanovski-defeats-rodriguez-to-retain-featherweight-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/volkanovski-defeats-rodriguez-to-retain-featherweight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkanovski defeats Rodriguez to retain featherweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Volkanovski emerged victorious in his clash against Yair Rodriguez to clinch the featherweight title at UFC 290 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>It was a one-sided contest all along as Volkanovski dominated Rodriguez all along as he ended the fight in round three with an avalanche of punches.<\/p>\n<p>It was his fifth successful title defense ever since his crowning in 2019, when he won the belt off Max Halloway.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">AND STILL  <\/p>\n<p>Alexander Volkanovski stops Yair Rodriguez in round 3   <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC290?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC290<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nifnnR5gMH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nifnnR5gMH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN MMA (@espnmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1677907846942556160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be completely honest with you, I need a bit of surgery on my arm,&#8221; said Volkanovski.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I want that lightweight belt, I&#8217;m still coming for that. Ilia Topuria running his mouth too, I&#8217;m coming back, watch out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Volkanovski&#8217;s triumph further cements his place as the featherweight king many consider him to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Volkanovski emerged victorious in his clash against Yair Rodriguez to clinch the featherweight title at UFC 290 in Las Vegas. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439474,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17371],"news_category":[],"gn_keywords":[19739,20350],"acf":{"news_source":null,"link_picture":null,"announce":"The 34-year-old was on fire and gave his opponent no chance","video":null},"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\/439473"}],"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=439473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439473"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439473"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}