{"id":37347,"date":"2026-03-22T16:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Alexander-Volkanovski-immediately-accepts-Movsar-Evloev-callout-after-UFC-London-200546"},"modified":"2026-03-22T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:37:14","slug":"alexander-volkanovski-immediately-accepts-movsar-evloev-callout-after-ufc-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/alexander-volkanovski-immediately-accepts-movsar-evloev-callout-after-ufc-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkanovski immediately accepts Movsar Evloev callout after UFC London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/alexander-volkanovski-immediately-accepts-movsar-evloev-callout-after-ufc-london.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p> The next <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a> featherweight title fight has seemingly been<br \/>\ndecided.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Movsar-Evloev-183539\">Movsar<br \/>\nEvloev<\/a> (20-0) and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Lerone-Murphy-209721\">Lerone<br \/>\nMurphy<\/a> (17-1) put their undefeated records on the line in a<br \/>\nfeatherweight title eliminator in the main event at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-270-March-21-110783\"><br \/>\nUFC London<\/a> on Saturday. Evloev displayed his superiority on the<br \/>\nground while also holding his own in the striking against the<br \/>\nEnglishman. Despite a point deduction due to a low blow in the<br \/>\nfourth round, Evloev earned a majority decision victory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Evloev lost no time in calling for the next title shot against<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Alexander-Volkanovski-101527\">Alexander<br \/>\nVolkanovski<\/a>, who was listening to the Russian live. Evloev<br \/>\npreferably wants to make a quick turnaround to challenge<br \/>\nVolkanovski in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s waiting for me for a really long time,\u201d Evloev said on the<br \/>\nUFC London post-fight show. \u201cAnd before he gets too old let\u2019s make<br \/>\nit happen\u2026 May, I\u2019m ready. And if Alex is ready, let\u2019s<br \/>\ndance.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A Few Tricks Up His Sleeve<\/h2>\n<p>Volkanovski has been acknowledging Evloev as a deserving contender<br \/>\nfor a while now. However, Murphy had entered the fray with a<br \/>\nhighlight-reel knockout win over <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Aaron-Pico-191127\">Aaron Pico<\/a><br \/>\nlast year. With Evloev\u2019s victory over Murphy, Volkanovski didn\u2019t<br \/>\nhesitate to accept the Russian\u2019s callout.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; \u201cOld man Volk. This old man still has some tricks left,\u201d<br \/>\nVolkanovski said. \u201cBring it on. He\u2019s right, I have been calling him<br \/>\nout because I believe he has been deserving for quite some time.<br \/>\nAnd I love that he said May. That means he\u2019s ready to turn it<br \/>\naround pretty quick.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center readability=\"3.3674496644295\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.9798657718121\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Movsar on <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Alexander-Volkanovski-101527\">Alexander<br \/>\nVolkanovski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been waiting for me for a long time. So before he gets too<br \/>\nold, let&#8217;s make it happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Volkanovski: &#8220;This old man still has some tricks left. Bring it<br \/>\non.&#8221; \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paramountplus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@paramountplus<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vVi7duhxS6\">pic.twitter.com\/vVi7duhxS6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC on Paramount+ (@UFConParamount) <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFConParamount\/status\/2035505707621962180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><br \/>\nMarch 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next UFC featherweight title fight has seemingly been decided.&nbsp; Movsar Evloev (20-0) and Lerone Murphy (17-1) put their undefeated records on the line in a featherweight title eliminator in the main event at UFC London on Saturday. Evloev displayed his superiority on the ground while also holding his own in the striking against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37347","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\/37347","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=37347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}