Alexander Volkanovski has no issues with Ilia Topuria getting an immediate UFC lightweight title shot. Topuria (16-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) is vacating his featherweight championship after back-to-back knockouts of Volkanovski and Max Holloway. Volkanovski was awaiting his rematch with Topuria, but those plans were derailed after “El Matador” moved divisions. But because Topuria won’t be holding up any divisions, Volkanovski (26-4 MMA, 13-3 UFC) approves of the idea of him getting a shot at UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev right off the bat. “Put it this way: If he was trying to hang on to both belts, I don’t think that was going to happen,” Volkanovski said on the “Believe You Me” podcast. “The fact that he’s vacated and the lightweight division’s in a position where, I don’t know, there’s no real clear No.
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