The Daniel Cormier Show - Alexander Volkanovski on rematch with Diego Lopes, overcoming Islam & Topuria KOs
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Alexander Volkanovski MAKES HIS RETURN to the Daniel Cormier Check-In series, this time ahead of his MASSIVE REMATCH against Diego Lopes for the UFC's featherweight championship. After beating Lopes by decision at UFC 314 in April of 2025, Volk reveals that Diego had his chances in the first fight to win by knockout. Hear what Volkanovski has to say about how the second fight will play out, and why if Lopes doesn't make proper adjustments he'll be in danger of getting FINISHED. And don't miss DC and Volk talk about overcoming the Islam Makhachev and Ilia Topuria knockouts, his next moves after this fight, and when they'll collab on a ‘Cooking with Volk’ episode! #Volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.6 | The volume. |
| 0:10.3 | Daniel! |
| 0:12.0 | Somebody! |
| 0:12.8 | I got to tell you, man, this cooking with bulk. |
| 0:19.4 | It's fun. |
| 0:20.4 | We still need to tee it up, man. |
| 0:21.9 | We need to tee it up, but I'm talking about some of the stuff that I have seen you cook. You were cooking some shit the other day. What were you making? Was it you shot some, you fished and you shot something? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we did, won the farm. So we end up getting a fish that was caught and then I end up filleting that. |
| 0:38.9 | And then my dad wanted, my dad seen a deer and he wanted. did uh won the farm so we end up uh getting a fish that was caught and then i end up filleting |
| 0:38.6 | that and then my dad wanted my dad seen a deer and he wanted to make sausages so he's because he's the |
| 0:43.6 | week before he tried to shoot one and he missed so he's like he's like i want you to shoot it i'm |
| 0:48.7 | like all right one sec so i was in front of the camera so i'm like oh my dad just told me about a deer |
| 0:53.7 | i'm gonna go over there shoot that um we're going to need it for some sausages and some meat, and I'll be back. So literally through the episode, we did that. But then with that deer, we made sausages, 110 kilograms of sausages. All sausages? Yeah, all sausages with it. But obviously, end up having a pork meat and pork fat in it as well. So what do you do with all that meat? |
| 1:12.6 | Do you just store it? |
| 1:13.4 | Well, we had our cousins there. |
| 1:14.6 | I had a, sausages with it. But obviously you end up having a pork meat and pork fat in it as well. So what do you do with all that meat? Do you just store it? |
| 1:13.4 | Well, we had our cousins. I had some of my cousins, Elaine Christopher, who did the sausages |
| 1:18.2 | with us and then we just shorter shared them. That's crazy. Between the lot of us there. |
| 1:23.0 | That's crazy. Are you enjoying doing that? Like, where did the idea for that comes from? |
| 1:28.3 | Because there are a lot of times where fighters, guys, quiet, |
| 1:31.3 | there are a lot of times where fighters want to start doing these other things |
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