{"id":599845,"date":"2023-01-20T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/watch-charles-oliveira-plotting-april-return-title-fight-by-end-of-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T16:01:00","slug":"watch-charles-oliveira-plotting-april-return-title-fight-by-end-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/watch-charles-oliveira-plotting-april-return-title-fight-by-end-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Charles Oliveira plotting April return, title fight by end of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-area\">\n<article id=\"post-65365\">\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1408\" height=\"725\" alt decoding=\"async\" title   srcset=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-20-at-15.45.43.png 1408w, https:\/\/themaclife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-20-at-15.45.43-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/themaclife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-20-at-15.45.43-1024x527.png 1024w\" src=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-20-at-15.45.43.png\" data-old-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>If Charles Oliveira gets his way, he will be challenging for the UFC lightweight championship by the time 2023 has come to an end.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian submission artist snapped an eleven-fight win streak when he was finished by Islam Makhachev in the second round of their title bout in October, bringing a close to one of the most impressive sequence of victories ever seen in the UFC\u2019s lightweight fold. But with lessons well and truly learned from that bout, the 33-year-old is keenly anticipating a return to the cage in the coming months ahead of what he says will be a redemptive title fight at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to be back to Rio, where everything started. I\u2019m very happy to be here, it is amazing,\u201d Oliveira said to Oscar Willis of The Mac Life through a translation.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to be here, feeling the energy from everybody: all the fighters who will be fighting in the arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VPAZ-lJPcog\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cApril or May I think, that\u2019s the time that I need,\u201d he added of his ideal return date.\u00a0 \u201cI think I need to focus on the top of the division. My focus is to fight in April and then fight for the title at the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"add_within_content\">\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/salient-child\/img\/advertisement_text_img.jpg\" previous-src=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/salient-child\/img\/advertisement_text_img.jpg\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But who that might be against?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody is talking about [Beneil] Dariush but \u2026 if the UFC thinks that he is the name, it\u2019s fine. Let\u2019s see what they decide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Should his prophecy of a world title fight before the end of 2023, it is likely it will come against the winner of next month\u2019s 155-pound showdown between Makhachev and featherweight titleholder Alexander Volkanovski; a fight he says is a close one because of the intriguing clash of styles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a very difficult fight, especially because of the styles,\u201d he said, adding that he hopes Makhachev has his hand raised so as to present Oliviera with the opportunity for revenge.<\/p>\n<p>And what will be different in their rematch?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to be Charles; I will do everything different.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"add_below_single_content\">\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/salient-child\/img\/advertisement_text_img.jpg\" previous-src=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/salient-child\/img\/advertisement_text_img.jpg\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><fb:comments-count href=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/sports\/mma\/watch-charles-oliveira-plotting-april-return-title-fight-by-end-of-2023\/\"><\/fb:comments-count> comments<\/p>\n<div id=\"add_after_content\">\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/salient-child\/img\/advertisement_text_img.jpg\" previous-src=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/salient-child\/img\/advertisement_text_img.jpg\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/sports\/mma\/watch-charles-oliveira-plotting-april-return-title-fight-by-end-of-2023\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n John Balfe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Charles Oliveira gets his way, he will be challenging for the UFC lightweight championship by the time 2023 has come to an end. The Brazilian submission artist snapped an eleven-fight win streak when he was finished by Islam Makhachev in the second round of their title bout in October, bringing a close to one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1144,534,451],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-599845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charles","8":"category-financial","9":"category-watch"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}