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\nDiego Lopes celebrates following his win at “UFC Freedom 250.” |
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Diego The two-time While Lopes is still among the top featherweights, two losses to \u201cIt\u2019s a little difficult.,\u201d He then revealed his desire to move up.<\/p>\n \u201cI have this desire to move up to 155 and take on an exciting Notably, Lopes weighed in as the backup for Ilia \u201cIf the UFC gives me the opportunity to keep fighting in both Diego Lopes celebrates following his win at “UFC Freedom 250.” | \ud83d\udcf7: Getty\/UFC Diego Lopes is pondering a change of scenery. The two-time Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight title challenger is debating leaving the weight class, claiming that he wants to compete at lightweight in his next fight. Lopes last fought at UFC Freedom 250, where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39086","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\/39086","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=39086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLopes<\/a> is pondering a change of scenery.<\/p>\n
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> featherweight title challenger
\nis debating leaving the weight class, claiming that he wants to
\ncompete at lightweight in his next fight. Lopes last fought at
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\nUFC Freedom 250<\/a>, where he finished Steve
\nGarcia<\/a>.<\/p>\nDiego Lopes lightweight move and UFC featherweight title
\npicture<\/h2>\n
\ncurrent champion Alexander
\nVolkanovski<\/a> puts him far from title contention, and his next
\nmove potentially opens up new possibilities.<\/p>\n
\nLopes told MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cAs long as Volkanovski doesn\u2019t
\nretire, it\u2019s going to be hard to get another title shot. I\u2019d have
\nto be rooting for him to lose, but I\u2019d rather see him retire as
\nchampion because he was such a great champion for the division. I\u2019m
\ndefinitely in a bit of a tough spot.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nfight\u2026 So, I honestly don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen in my
\ndivision. I had a conversation with the UFC this past weekend, and
\nwe actually talked more about the lightweight division than the
\nfeatherweight division.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTopuria<\/a> vs. Justin
\nGaethje<\/a> at UFC Freedom 250. He claims that if the promotion
\nallows him to bounce back and forth between weight classes he\u2019ll do
\nso, but lightweight is his clear preference if he has to choose
\none.<\/p>\n
\ndivisions, I\u2019d love that. But if they told me, \u2018You have to pick
\none weight class,\u2019 then, considering where things stand right now,
\nand with Volkanovski still being the champion, I think I\u2019d choose
\n155.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"