Diego Lopes has set up a private gym to train for his UFC 325 title rematch against Alexander Volkanovski. This time, Lopes does not want to leave any stone unturned and has his crosshairs on the featherweight gold.
Volkanovski and Lopes fought last year at UFC 314 for the vacant 145-pound gold. Before the fight, fans thought that since the Australian had suffered back-to-back knockout losses to Islam Makhachev and Ilia Topuria, he would share the same fate against Lopes. But ‘The Great’ fought a well-calculated bout, stayed outside Lopes’ firing zone, and in the end cruised to a unanimous decision win to reclaim the UFC featherweight championship.