{"id":26255,"date":"2024-02-18T20:11:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/26255\/ufc-298-ilia-topuria-dethrones\/"},"modified":"2024-02-18T20:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:11:16","slug":"ufc-298-ilia-topuria-dethrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=26255","title":{"rendered":"UFC 298: Ilia Topuria dethrones Alexander Volkanovski with emphatic knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 298: Ilia Topuria dethrones Alexander Volkanovski with emphatic knockout\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We have a new UFC featherweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Volkanovski&#39;s time atop the 145-pound throne is over as Ilia Topuria stunned the champion on Saturday night with a second-round knockout to become the new titleholder in Anaheim, California.  Topuria, now on a seven-fight UFC winning streak and a 15-0 overall record, brings Spain&#39;s first UFC title.  Topuria joins an exclusive list as the division&#39;s fifth champion, joining Volkanovski, Max Holloway, Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor.<\/p>\n<p>For Volkanovski, his reign ends in the division he&#39;s owned for nearly seven years, with his 11-fight winning streak at featherweight ending.  Volkanovski, 35, adds another loss to a discouraging statistic for older fighters \u2013 as with his loss, male fighters aged 35 and older are now 0-15 in UFC title fights at 155 books and less.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim break down all the action from a drama-filled fight card in Anaheim.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<aside class=\"module-iframe-wrapper \">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"arena-liveblog-iframe\" height=\"2000\" width=\"100%\" class=\"frame iframe-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/embed?publisher=espn-69077&amp;event=7rtaWQb&amp;v=2&amp;theme=light\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"false\" mozallowfullscreen=\"false\" and=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" seemless=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<h3\/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 298: Ilia Topuria dethrones Alexander Volkanovski with emphatic knockout\u060c We have a new UFC featherweight champion. Alexander Volkanovski&#39;s time atop the 145-pound throne is over as Ilia Topuria stunned the champion on Saturday night with a second-round knockout to become the new titleholder in Anaheim, California. Topuria, now on a seven-fight UFC winning streak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1772,9273,10848,10711,642,10616,228,229],"class_list":["post-26255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-alexander","tag-dethrones","tag-emphatic","tag-ilia","tag-knockout","tag-topuria","tag-ufc","tag-volkanovski"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26257,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255\/revisions\/26257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}