{"id":43586,"date":"2024-08-15T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T11:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=43586"},"modified":"2024-08-15T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T11:34:26","slug":"ufc-adesanya-will-knock-out-du-plessis-volkanovski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/15\/ufc-adesanya-will-knock-out-du-plessis-volkanovski\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC: Adesanya Will Knock Out Du Plessis \u2014 Volkanovski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian MMA star Alexander Volkanovski has thrown his support behind former two-time UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya to knock out current champion Dricus du Plessis in their title fight at UFC 305 in Perth on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his YouTube channel on Wednesday, August 14, 2024, he predicted that the Nigerian-born fighter would end the bout with a tactical finish.<br \/>\n\u201cI think Israel Adesanya is going to put on a performance where he gets a crazy finish,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel like something big is coming\u2014I mean, a big finish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Australian recalled Adesanya\u2019s victory over Paulo Costa, expecting a similar approach against du Plessis.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya has lost two of his past three fights and is seeking to reclaim the middleweight title he lost to Sean Strickland last year. Du Plessis subsequently defeated Strickland to claim the belt.<\/p>\n<p>Despite du Plessis\u2019 victory over Strickland, Volkanovski believes Adesanya has learned from his previous setbacks.<br \/>\n\u201cDricus is very awkward, very unorthodox,\u201d he added. \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t happen to Izzy twice. There\u2019s no way that fight looks the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian MMA star Alexander Volkanovski has thrown his support behind former two-time UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya to knock out current champion Dricus du Plessis in their title fight at UFC 305 in Perth on Saturday. Speaking on his YouTube channel on Wednesday, August 14, 2024, he predicted that the Nigerian-born fighter would end the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1343],"class_list":["post-43586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-adesanya"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43588,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43586\/revisions\/43588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}