{"id":440203,"date":"2023-07-20T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440203"},"modified":"2023-07-20T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:19:18","slug":"makhachev-to-face-oliveira-in-ufc-294-in-a-title-rematch","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/makhachev-to-face-oliveira-in-ufc-294-in-a-title-rematch\/","title":{"rendered":"Makhachev to face Oliveira in UFC 294 in a title rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islam Makhachev&#8217;s upcoming title defense is no longer unknown.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Islam Makhachev will defend his lightweight title against Charles Oliveira in a rematch at UFC 294, Dana White announced. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cnTOSZ7AMH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cnTOSZ7AMH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN MMA (@espnmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1681866897560834048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The UFC lightweight champ will defend his title vs. ex-champion Charles Oliveira in a rematch in the most important bout at the UFC 294 on October 21<sup>st<\/sup> in Abu Dhabi; Dana White shared with the media.<\/p>\n<p>The last match between them was at UFC 280, where Islam submitted his Brazilian opponent in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round to triumph with the then-vacant UFC lightweight belt.<\/p>\n<p>Makhachev&#8217;s (24-1) last bout was a unanimous-decision victory against featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 284 at the beginning of the year. The Russian won 12 fights in a row, all in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Islam is very close with the ex-longtime lightweight champ and undefeated in his whole MMA career Khabib Nurmagomedov.<\/p>\n<p>Charles &#8220;do Bronx&#8221; Oliveira won against Beneil Dariush via a 1<sup>st<\/sup> round TKO at UFC 289 in June to secure the rematch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam Makhachev&#8217;s upcoming title defense is no longer unknown. Islam Makhachev will defend his lightweight title against Charles Oliveira in a rematch at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":440204,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17372,18148,20507],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[20510,20511,1093,20509],"acf":{"announce":"The 2 fighters will headline the UFC 294.","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\/440203"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440203"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440203"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}