{"id":631375,"date":"2023-04-20T03:10:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/alexander-volkanovski-not-looking-past-dangerous-yair-rodriguez-at-ufc-290-hes-been-dominating-and-looking-good-in-his-last-few\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T03:10:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:10:13","slug":"alexander-volkanovski-not-looking-past-dangerous-yair-rodriguez-at-ufc-290-hes-been-dominating-and-looking-good-in-his-last-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/alexander-volkanovski-not-looking-past-dangerous-yair-rodriguez-at-ufc-290-hes-been-dominating-and-looking-good-in-his-last-few\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkanovski not looking past \u201cdangerous\u201d Yair Rodriguez at UFC 290: \u201cHe\u2019s been dominating and looking good in his last few\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Alexander Volkanovski has said that he isn\u2019t looking past the challenge of Yair Rodriguez when they collide at UFC 290 this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Following on from his dramatic collision with Islam Makhachev, Alexander Volkanovski is ready to dive right back into the Octagon. On July 8, \u2018The Great\u2019 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/alexander-volkanovski-vs-yair-rodriguez-targeted-for-ufc-290\/\">set to defend<\/a> his UFC featherweight championship when he goes up against interim champion Yair Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>After years of being viewed as a contender, Rodriguez finally has the chance to climb to the top of the mountain and become the third Mexican-born undisputed champ. Of course, that\u2019s easier said than done, given Volkanovski\u2019s status as one of the pound-for-pound best in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Some fans are already looking at the prospect of Volkanovski running it back with Makhachev. For the man himself, though, he isn\u2019t ready to look past Yair.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fU-6FWcke8k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking at him as a real challenger, like he\u2019s a dangerous fighter,\u201d Volkanovski said. \u201cHe could be one of the most dangerous fighters I\u2019ve fought really. When you talk about unpredictability and knockout power and so many different tools, you need to take him really serious. I think I\u2019m the best fighter in the world, so am I confident? Yeah, but I know not to take this guy lightly. He\u2019s been dominating and looking good in his last few fights.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/alexander-volkanovski-not-looking-past-dangerous-yair-rodriguez-at-ufc-290-hes-been-dominating-and-looking-good-in-his-last-few\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=alexander-volkanovski-not-looking-past-dangerous-yair-rodriguez-at-ufc-290-hes-been-dominating-and-looking-good-in-his-last-few\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Alejandro Fetzer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Volkanovski has said that he isn\u2019t looking past the challenge of Yair Rodriguez when they collide at UFC 290 this summer. Following on from his dramatic collision with Islam Makhachev, Alexander Volkanovski is ready to dive right back into the Octagon. On July 8, \u2018The Great\u2019 is set to defend his UFC featherweight championship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,534,859],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-631375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alexander","8":"category-financial","9":"category-looking"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631375","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=631375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}