{"id":36675,"date":"2026-02-02T22:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Coach-Alexander-Volkanovski-Nearly-Withdrew-from-UFC-325-Main-Event-199989"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:15:25","slug":"coach-alexander-volkanovski-nearly-withdrew-from-ufc-325-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/coach-alexander-volkanovski-nearly-withdrew-from-ufc-325-main-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach: Alexander Volkanovski Nearly Withdrew from UFC 325 Main Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAlexander Volkanovski appeared to be in peak form at UFC 325. |
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There was a point during Alexander
\nVolkanovski<\/a>\u2019s training camp for
\nUFC 325<\/a> where it looked like the featherweight champ wasn\u2019t
\ngoing to make it to fight night.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to coach Joe Lopez, who revealed on Daniel
\nCormier’s YouTube channel<\/a> that Volkanovski injured his
\nshoulder about a month before facing Diego Lopes<\/a>
\nthis past Saturday at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n

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“To be fair, Alex, four weeks ago, we didn’t think he was going to
\nfight,” Lopez said. (transcription via MMAjunkie.com<\/a>) “He pulled his shoulder out,
\nreally. He’s been compromised for the last four weeks with a busted
\nshoulder.”<\/p>\n

The Old Volk<\/h2>\n

While Volkanovski might not have been 100 percent, that didn\u2019t
\nprevent the Aussie from securing a relatively clear-cut unanimous
\ndecision triumph over Lopes in their rematch. \u201cThe Great\u201d also
\ndefeated Lopes via unanimous decision at UFC 314. The coach
\nrevealed that despite the injury, Volkanovski was more confident as
\nthey prepared to face Lopes for a second time.<\/p>\n

“Volk was sort of second-guessing himself the whole of the first
\nDiego camp,” Lopez said. “With this camp, Volk was back to himself.
\nHe was confident, didn’t have to say anything. He was just old Volk
\nback again. Maybe we can get another four out of him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Volkanovski appeared to be in peak form at UFC 325. | Getty\/UFC There was a point during Alexander Volkanovski\u2019s training camp for UFC 325 where it looked like the featherweight champ wasn\u2019t going to make it to fight night. That\u2019s according to coach Joe Lopez, who revealed on Daniel Cormier’s YouTube channel that Volkanovski […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}