Well-known insider and journalist Ariel Helwani denied information about Alex Volkanovski's possible fight with Diego Lopez.
"I've come across several publications where people have stated that a fight between Volkanovski and Lopez is in the works, and someone even said it's been confirmed and will take place in Sydney. To my confirmed knowledge, this is not true. This fight hasn't even been discussed yet and no one is working on it. Yes, of course, there is still a lot of time and a lot of things can change before the end of the year, but at the moment more relevant is the rematch of Volkanovski vs. Topuria sometime in the spring, and maybe it will happen in Spain," Helwani wrote on his page in social network X.