The reigning UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski emphasizes {that a} potential matchup towards Conor McGregor holds significance past monetary positive factors.
Despite securing victories towards famend fighters corresponding to Jose Aldo, Max Holloway, Chad Mendes, and Chan Sung Jung, the 145-pound kingpin has but so as to add the identify of former featherweight champion Conor McGregor to his spectacular record of conquests. McGregor, who has moved up in weight, stays one of the notable opponents that Volkanovski needs to face in his profession.
During a current interplay on The MMA Fan Podcast, Volkanovksi acknowledged:
“It’s fairly straightforward for me in saying Conor McGregor as a result of he was in featherweight. We’ve received to recollect the champions I’ve beat. I’ve beat each different champion within the featherweight division. The solely champ I haven’t fought within the featherweight division is Conor McGregor. McGregor in his prime in featherweight division would clearly be the all-time. I’m certain everybody would wish to see that proper now.”
‘The Great’ added:
“Everyone’s going to speak in regards to the cash, and that’s why you solely need that battle. Yeah, after all there’s cash in it, the circus round it, the hype, all of that. But you speak about legacy, then I’d have overwhelmed each featherweight champion, and I plan on having probably the most defenses as effectively.”
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Alexander Volkanovski claims that Yair Rodriguez’s battle at UFC 290 has brought on him to ‘assume otherwise’
Alexander Volkanovski is intensifying his coaching routine for a extremely anticipated conflict towards interim title holder Yair Rodriguez. The title unification bout is scheduled to happen on July 8 as a part of the extremely anticipated International Fight Week.
Following his earlier battle towards present light-weight champion Islam Makachev at UFC 284, Alexander Volkanovski is now gearing up for his upcoming bout towards Yair Rodriguez. Notably, Rodriguez secured the interim featherweight title on the identical evening as Volkanovski’s final battle. As he prepares for the conflict, ‘The Great’ is totally conscious of the risk posed by ‘El Pantera,’ which has compelled him to regulate his coaching strategy accordingly:
“This is certainly a nonetheless thrilling for me as a result of, the person Rodriguez like yeah yeah, like he is a very good man, he is a harmful fighter. It’s thrilling… so it is , it is making me should, , assume a bit of bit otherwise.”
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