Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) recently announced the upcoming UFC 312 pay-per-view (PPV) event, booked for Sat., Feb. 8, 2025 at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia. As you might expect, former featherweight champion and hometown hero, Alex Volkanovski, is planning to compete.
But only for the 145-pound title.
“Anything with gold in it and I’ll be happy,” Volkanovski told reporters at the UFC 312 kickoff press conference. “That will just lock me in for whoever wins that anyway. So, even if it’s the interim that’s still a big one. I’d say it’d be an exciting one with [Diego] Lopes, I’d say, if that was gonna happen. If not, it’s Max or Ilia.”
Volkanovski plans to storm the cage at UFC 308 in Abu Dhabi to stake his claim for the next featherweight title shot. That puts “The Great” in a championship rematch regardless of who prevails between current division kingpin, Ilia Topuria, and former 145-pound titleholder, Max Holloway.
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