{"id":38517,"date":"2026-05-27T14:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Movsar-Evloev-hints-UFC-title-shot-is-imminent-201335"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:43:11","slug":"movsar-evloev-hints-ufc-title-shot-is-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/movsar-evloev-hints-ufc-title-shot-is-imminent\/","title":{"rendered":"Movsar Evloev hints UFC title shot is imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><!--PICTURE R--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pointer\">\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/movsar-evloev-hints-ufc-title-shot-is-imminent.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Movsar Evloev has indicated that he will receive a featherweight<br \/>\ntitle shot this summer. | Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Movsar-Evloev-183539\">Movsar<br \/>\nEvloev<\/a> has seemingly secured a <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a> featherweight title shot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite having long been the most deserving title contender, Evloev<br \/>\n(20-0) has been denied a title shot so far. The undefeated Russian<br \/>\nnow appears to be confident about fighting for the title at the end<br \/>\nof this summer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u201cI am back, end of the summer, and new Inshallah,\u201d Evloev wrote on<br \/>\nX.<center readability=\"1.4565217391304\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.0978260869565\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am back, end of the summer, and new<br \/>\nInshallah.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Movsar-Evloev-183539\">Movsar<br \/>\nEvloev<\/a> (@MovsarUFC) <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MovsarUFC\/status\/2059460079557206120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><br \/>\nMay 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<h2>The Waiting Game<\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Alexander-Volkanovski-101527\">Alexander<br \/>\nVolkanovski<\/a> had already acknowledged Evloev as the most<br \/>\ndeserving title contender when \u201cThe Great\u201d won the title for the<br \/>\nsecond time against <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Diego-Lopes-112531\">Diego Lopes<\/a><br \/>\nlast year. Evloev had already defeated Lopes, who gave him a tough<br \/>\ntest in a short-notice debut in 2023. However, Lopes surprising<br \/>\nleapfrogged ahead of Evloev and challenged Volkanovski in a rematch<br \/>\nthis past January, coming up short again.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Evloev took on <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Lerone-Murphy-209721\">Lerone<br \/>\nMurphy<\/a> in a clash of undefeated contenders at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-270-March-21-110783\"><br \/>\nUFC London<\/a> in March. Evloev scored a majority decision win over<br \/>\n\u201cIceman\u201d in a close technical affair. Evloev is coming off wins<br \/>\nover Lopes, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Arnold-Allen-97499\">Arnold<br \/>\nAllen<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Aljamain-Sterling-66313\">Aljamain<br \/>\nSterling<\/a>, and Murphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movsar Evloev has indicated that he will receive a featherweight title shot this summer. | Getty\/UFC Movsar Evloev has seemingly secured a UFC featherweight title shot.&nbsp; Despite having long been the most deserving title contender, Evloev (20-0) has been denied a title shot so far. The undefeated Russian now appears to be confident about fighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38517","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\/38517","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=38517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}