{"id":103885,"date":"2022-10-21T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ufc-champ-charles-oliveira-still-wants-to-drop-back-down-for-featherweight-title-volkanovski-responds\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:39:00","slug":"ufc-champ-charles-oliveira-still-wants-to-drop-back-down-for-featherweight-title-volkanovski-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ufc-champ-charles-oliveira-still-wants-to-drop-back-down-for-featherweight-title-volkanovski-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC champ Charles Oliveira still wants to drop back down for featherweight title; Volkanovski responds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UFC featherweight champion and current top pound-for-pound fighter Alexander Volkanovski has been open about a possible jump to 155 pounds. He even made weight and is officially the backup for this weekend’s UFC 280 headliner between Charles Oliveira and Islam Makhachev, and expects the next 155-pound title shot for himself. <\/p>\n

Makhachev isn’t so fond of the idea of \u200b\u200bfighting a shorter opponent. \u201cDo Bronx,\u201d however, he is willing to take the challenge, but on his terms. As he said during the UFC 280 media day (quotes by MMA Fighting): <\/p>\n

\u201cIt all depends on how this fight [with Makhachev] will go, so we see what we’ll do, but my timing is to fight here and fight in Brazil.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Volkanovski wants, let’s make it happen. But let’s do it in two ways: Let’s do the first one in Brazil, 155 pounds, and in November at 145,\u201d said Oliveira, who also said he’s willing to fight Volkanovski in Perth for the featherweight title. <\/p>\n

Fighting back down at 145 pounds may be a long shot for Oliveira, who missed weight a total of four times during his featherweight run, and even missed weight at lightweight in his previous outing at UFC 274. But according to him, he now has a \u201cgreat team\u201d around him to help him make the drop if he chose to do so. <\/p>\n

Volkanovski eventually got word of Oliveira’s challenge, and this was his response: <\/p>\n

\u201cMate, let’s do it,\u201d Volkanovski told MMA Junkie. \u201cIf anyone could do it, it’s me. If he can get that done, let’s do it. Obviously, I don’t know if it makes too much sense, but I’m down. I’m down for whatever. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know if that can even happen, but if they’re happy to do it, I’m happy to do it. It’s as simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, Oliveira’s focus is on reclaiming the 155-pound belt that has been left vacant, as he goes up against Makhachev this Saturday in Abu Dhabi. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UFC featherweight champion and current top pound-for-pound fighter Alexander Volkanovski has been open about a possible jump to 155 pounds. He even made weight and is officially the backup for this weekend’s UFC 280 headliner between Charles Oliveira and Islam Makhachev, and expects the next 155-pound title shot for himself. Makhachev isn’t so fond of …<\/p>\n

UFC champ Charles Oliveira still wants to drop back down for featherweight title; Volkanovski responds<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103729,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/charles-oliveira-vs-islam-makhachev-title-fight-set\/","url_meta":{"origin":103885,"position":0},"title":"Charles Oliveira vs Islam Makhachev title fight set","date":"October 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"ABU DHABI \u2013 Charles Oliveira and Islam Makhachev had no drama on the scale Friday when they made weight for the UFC 280 vacant lightweight title headliner. 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