UFC 325: Volkanovski vs Lopes 2 (Predictions)
UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2 takes place Sunday, February 1, 2026 at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia. Early prelims start at 2:00pm PST, with the main card at 6:00pm PST, headlined by Alexander Volkanovski vs. Diego Lopes in a five-round rematch.
Volkanovski already has a clean receipt from their first meeting, taking a unanimous decision to win the vacant belt at UFC 314. Expect him to weaponize feints, footwork, and those I’ve-seen-this-movie reads that turn wild exchanges into highlight reels for him and therapy sessions for opponents.
Lopes isn’t here to autograph that receipt. Since the loss, he bounced back with a TKO of Jean Silva, and he’ll chase the chaos — big kicks, scrambles, and any moment where Volkanovski has to choose between being perfect and being alive. If Volk’s timing is a metronome, Lopes is a drum solo played with brass knuckles.
The co-main is a lightweight collision between Dan Hooker and Benoît Saint Denis: Hooker wants a fistfight, Saint Denis wants your hips, and both are stubborn enough to get what they want. For pure ‘someone’s getting a bonus’ energy, circle Rafael Fiziev vs. Maurício Ruffy — two fast-twitch strikers who treat distance management like a suggestion, not a rule.
Here are our official fight predictions for the card.
- Volkanovski vs. Lopes = Volkanovski ✔️
- Hooker vs. Saint Denis = Saint Denis ✔️
- Fiziev vs. Ruffy = Fiziev ❌
- Tuivasa vs. Teixeira = Teixeira ✔️
- Salkilld vs. Mullarkey = Salkilld ✔️
- Tafa vs. Elekana = Elekana ✔️
- Rowston vs. Brundage = Rowston ✔️
- Malkoun vs. Finney = Finney ❌
- Micallef vs. Elliott = Micallef ✔️
- Ofli vs. Yizha = Yizha ❌
- Kim vs. Fan = Fan ✔️
- Nakamura vs. Szalay = Szalay ❌
- Sulangrangbo vs. Lui = Sulangrangbo ❌
