{"id":274153,"date":"2025-04-13T06:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T06:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/sports\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-alexander-volkanovski-punches-past-diego-lopes-reclaims-title-at-ufc-314\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T06:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T06:53:42","slug":"rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-alexander-volkanovski-punches-past-diego-lopes-reclaims-title-at-ufc-314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/sports\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-alexander-volkanovski-punches-past-diego-lopes-reclaims-title-at-ufc-314\/","title":{"rendered":"rewrite this title in Arabic Alexander Volkanovski punches past Diego Lopes, reclaims title at UFC 314"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic <\/p>\n<p>The man for the land Down Under is back on top.<\/p>\n<p>More than a year after Ilia Topuria knocked him off his perch, Alexander Volkanovski recovered the since-vacated featherweight title on Saturday night with a unanimous decision victory, 49-46, 49-46, 48-47, victory over Diego Lopes in the UFC 314 main event in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The title had been recently vacated by Topuria after the former champ resolved to move up to lightweight.<\/p>\n<p>Volkanovski (27-4, 16 finishes), who had not competed since Topuria knocked him out last February, took the fight to Lopes (26-7, 22 finishes) early, attacking with quick punches to the head and seeming to steal some of the spirit from his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>But Lopes, a Brazilian who has settled in Mexico, came to life with a brief knockdown of Aussie late in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Volkanovksi was undeterred, coming back with a strong third frame and weathering fourth-round trouble in the form of a punch that disrupted his eyesight to close the fifth and final round strong.<\/p>\n<p>In the co-main event, rising star Paddy Pimblett (23-3, 17 finishes) didn\u2019t need the full scheduled five rounds to turn in his finest performance to date, manhandling and battering Michael Chandler (23-10, 18 finishes) into a third-round TKO victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody else got any questions?\u201d he screamed into the camera, a shot at the doubters of his progression up the UFC ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Pimblett also called for a fight against one of the top 155-pounders in the promotion: either Dustin Poirier, Justin Gaethje, Charles Oliveira or Arman Tsarukyan.<\/p>\n<p>Preceding Pimblett\u2019s impressive performance, Yair Rodriguez (20-5, 13 finishes) outclassed debuting longtime Bellator star Patricio Pitbull (36-8, 24 finishes) via three-round decision, heating up in the third round after a tepid start to their key featherweight clash.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, the former interim titleholder at 145 pounds, afterward called for a title fight against Volkanovksi in his native Mexico when the UFC returns south of the border in September.<\/p>\n<p>Former light heavyweight title challenger Dominick Reyes (15-4, 12 finishes), a former Stony Brook defensive back, opened the pay-per-view portion of the event with a one-hitter quitter KO of Nikita Krylov (30-10, 28 finishes), flattening him with a left hand in the first round to run his win streak to three after having previously lost four straight.<\/p>\n<p>The next bout \u2014 coming after the UFC announced women\u2019s MMA legend Amanda Nunes as a member of its Hall of Fame Class of 2025 \u2014 saw Jean Silva (16-2, 15 finishes) tap out Bryce Mitchell (17-3, 10 finishes) via second-round ninja choke, extending his meteoric rise up the featherweight ranks.<\/p>\n<p>In the most pivotal fight on the prelims, Virna Jandiroba (22-3, 15 finishes) dominated ex-title challenger Yan Xiaonan (19-5, nine finishes) with her grappling for a unanimous decision victory and solidifying her case to be the next to face women\u2019s strawweight champ Zhang Weili.<\/p>\n<p>Other victory on the preliminary portion were Dan Ige (via third-round TKO over Sean Woodson), Chase Hooper (via decision against Jim Miller), Julian Erosa (via round-one TKO vs. Darren Elkins), Micha\u0142 Oleksiejczuk (via first-round TKO against Sedriques Dumas), Sumudaerji (via decision over Mitch Raposo), Marco Tulio (via second-round TKO vs. Tresean Gore) and Nora Cornolle (via round-two submission against Hailey Cowan).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic The man for the land Down Under is back on top. 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