{"id":41262,"date":"2026-10-26T04:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Petr-Yan-favored-in-2-rematches-Volkanovski-underdog-to-Gaethje-203356"},"modified":"2026-10-26T04:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:15:07","slug":"petr-yan-favored-in-2-rematches-volkanovski-underdog-to-gaethje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/petr-yan-favored-in-2-rematches-volkanovski-underdog-to-gaethje\/","title":{"rendered":"Petr Yan favored in 2 rematches, Volkanovski underdog to Gaethje"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Alexander
\nVolkanovski<\/a> and Petr Yan<\/a>
\nretained their
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> titles at
\nUFC 333<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yan is favored in potential rematches against Yadong Song<\/a>
\nand Sean
\nO’Malley<\/a>, while betting lines suggest a potential featherweight
\ntitle defense for Volkanovski would be closely contested.<\/p>\n

BetOnline opens Petr Yan as a -250 favorite against Sean
\nO’Malley and Song Yadong, with Alexander Volkanovski +160 against
\nJustin Gaethje<\/h2>\n

BetOnline Sports<\/a> has released odds for possible
\nfuture matchups involving both champions. Volkanovski is an
\nunderdog against lightweight champion Justin
\nGaethje<\/a>, while a potential featherweight title defense against
\nJean
\nSilva<\/a> is priced nearly even. None of these matchups has been
\nannounced.<\/p>\n

Published opening odds list Volkanovski at -115 against Silva
\n(-105), while Gaethje is a -180 favorite against the two-time
\nfeatherweight champion (+160).<\/p>\n

At bantamweight, Yan is favored in potential rematches against Song
\nand O\u2019Malley. The Russian defeated Song by unanimous decision in
\n2024 and lost a controversial split decision to O\u2019Malley in 2022.
\n\u201cNo Mercy\u201d has indicated that he considers Song more deserving of a
\ntitle shot but will leave the choice to UFC matchmakers.<\/p>\n

Yan opened as a -250 favorite against Song (+210). The supplied
\nodds also list Yan at -250 against O\u2019Malley (+207). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Volkanovski and Petr Yan retained their Ultimate Fighting Championship titles at UFC 333. Yan is favored in potential rematches against Yadong Song and Sean O’Malley, while betting lines suggest a potential featherweight title defense for Volkanovski would be closely contested. BetOnline opens Petr Yan as a -250 favorite against Sean O’Malley and Song Yadong, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41262","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\/41262","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=41262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}