{"id":466606,"date":"2023-10-21T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T20:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466606"},"modified":"2023-10-21T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T20:33:13","slug":"makhachev-knocks-out-volkanovski-in-1st-round-at-ufc-294","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/makhachev-knocks-out-volkanovski-in-1st-round-at-ufc-294\/","title":{"rendered":"Makhachev knocks out Volkanovski in 1st round at UFC 294"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islam Makhachev won against Alex Volkanovski in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round with a KO after a brutal head kick and kept his lightweight trophy at the main event bout at UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Featherweight champ Volkanovski accepted the bout with less than 2 weeks\u2019 notice after Charles Oliveira suffered an injury at his training camp and was unable to fight. The Australian and Islam had fought 8 months ago in a 5<sup>th<\/sup> round match in Australia that the judges decided, but now he failed to last 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">AND STILL \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Islam Makhachev secures a HUGE KO win at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC294?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC294<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XvLn8AQqcl\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XvLn8AQqcl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN MMA (@espnmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1715822147661168840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The two fighters exchanged kicks in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> seconds of the bout, and Alex showed great defense as he avoided 1<sup>st<\/sup> takedown attempt by his Russian opponent. However, Makhachev landed strong kicks and did a lot of damage to the Australian in the clinch.<\/p>\n<p>After that, Islam finished the fight with a head kick and then threw some punches while his opponent was on the ground before the referee stopped the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not celebrating this victory because of the bad thing happening around the world,&#8221; Islam shared after his triumph.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa Russian UFC CHAMPION Islam Makhachev says \u201cPalestine we stand with you!\u201d after winning by KO in the first round of his title fight.<\/p>\n<p>W <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAKHACHEVMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MAKHACHEVMMA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4QD5J7V6vh\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4QD5J7V6vh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jackson Hinkle \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@jacksonhinklle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacksonhinklle\/status\/1715824550238392416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam Makhachev won against Alex Volkanovski in the 1st round with a KO after a brutal head kick and kept his lightweight trophy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":466607,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17372,18148,20507],"news_category":[16710,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[21859,20511,1093,20509],"acf":{"announce":"Islam ended the fight with a phenomenal head kick in the 1st round.","video":["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\/466606"}],"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=466606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466610,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466606\/revisions\/466610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466606"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466606"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}