Alexander Volkanovski Shares Expected Trash Talk For Islam Makhachev

UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski not only plans on defeating Islam Makhachev but also taunting him during the fight. Volkanovski and Makhachev will square off in the UFC 284 headliner this Saturday in Perth, Australia. Volkanovski is lo…

UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski not only plans on defeating Islam Makhachev but also taunting him during the fight. Volkanovski and Makhachev will square off in the UFC 284 headliner this Saturday in Perth, Australia. Volkanovski is looking to become the latest UFC two-weight world champion and plans to defend both titles simultaneously. After recent…

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Chael Sonnen Asks Alexander Volkanovski’s Doubters: ‘You Know More Than Him?’

Former two-division UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen has laid down an important question for those who continue to doubt Alexander Volkanovski. Currently, Volkanovski not only sits on the featherweight throne on MMA’s biggest stage, but also rul…

Former two-division UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen has laid down an important question for those who continue to doubt Alexander Volkanovski. Currently, Volkanovski not only sits on the featherweight throne on MMA’s biggest stage, but also rules over the pound-for-pound landscape. The Australian has achieved those feats by going unbeaten through 12 fights in the…

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Alexander Volkanovski Gives UFC 284 Round-By-Round Breakdown

UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski foresees a potentially short night at the office against Islam Makhachev. Volkanovski will face Makhachev for the lightweight title at UFC 284 in Perth. He’ll attempt to become the UFC’s late…

UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski foresees a potentially short night at the office against Islam Makhachev. Volkanovski will face Makhachev for the lightweight title at UFC 284 in Perth. He’ll attempt to become the UFC’s latest two-weight world champion, joining the ranks of Conor McGregor and Amanda Nunes. Volkanovski is the UFC’s pound-for-pound No. 1…

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Henry Cejudo: ‘There’s Nothing Alexander Volkanovski Can Do At UFC 284’

Former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo doesn’t believe there’s any chance that Alexander Volkanovski leaves Perth with the lightweight gold in his possession. After bringing the Octagon back to Brazil for the year’s opening pay…

Former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo doesn’t believe there’s any chance that Alexander Volkanovski leaves Perth with the lightweight gold in his possession. After bringing the Octagon back to Brazil for the year’s opening pay-per-view event, the MMA leader will cross the world to hold the second in Perth, Australia, this weekend. And with it,…

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Alexander Volkanovski Names Featherweight Contender He’s Rooting For

While Alexander Volkanovski takes a trip up to lightweight, he is rooting for some of his fellow featherweights to rise up in his absence, one in particular. UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski is currently the number one pound-for-pound f…

While Alexander Volkanovski takes a trip up to lightweight, he is rooting for some of his fellow featherweights to rise up in his absence, one in particular. UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski is currently the number one pound-for-pound fighter in the organization. In his next bout, he will be taking on newly crowned lightweight champion…

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Dana White Predicts Makhachev vs Volkanovski To Break UFC’s All-Time PPV Record

dana whiteUFC President Dana White is no stranger to hosting incredibly successful mixed martial arts events, especially with cash cows such as former two-division champion Conor McGregor, former heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, and former bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, amongst others. But, he believes our upcoming pay-per-view event going down next weekend at UFC 284 could shatter […]

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UFC President Dana White is no stranger to hosting incredibly successful mixed martial arts events, especially with cash cows such as former two-division champion Conor McGregor, former heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, and former bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, amongst others.

But, he believes our upcoming pay-per-view event going down next weekend at UFC 284 could shatter those records.

White stated the following early this morning at the UFC Vegas 68 post-fight press conference:

“I don’t (think) it’s ever happened, the no. 1 and no. 2 pound-for-pound (fighting one another). I mean it’s just a monster fight and you know, just the gate alone out of there is going to be an MSG-type (of) gate. And the pre-buys for the pay-per-view is beating all the fights of its type and it is probably going to break the record for pay-per-view in Australia and New Zealand, the UFC all-time record, which was Conor and somebody.

“But it’s looking like it’s going to break that record. It’s a monster fight.”

Top 10 UFC PPV Records of all-time

10. Amanda Nunes vs Ronda Rousey (UFC 207) – 1.1 million buys

10. Ronda Rousey vs Holly Holm (UFC 193) – 1.1 million buys

9. Brock Lesnar vs Shane Carwin (UFC 116) – 1.16 million buys

8. Miesha Tate vs Amanda Nunes (UFC 200) – 1.2 million buys

7. Eddie Alvarez vs Conor McGregor (UFC 205) – 1.3 million buys

6. Jose Aldo vs Conor McGregor (UFC 194) – 1.4 million buys

5. Conor McGregor vs Nate Diaz (UFC 196) – 1.5 million buys

4. Brock Lesnar vs Frank Mir II (UFC 100) – 1.6 million buys

3. Nate Diaz vs Conor McGregor II (UFC 202) – 1.65 million buys

2. Dustin Poirier vs Conor McGregor III (UFC 264) – 1.8 million buys

1. Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Conor McGregor (UFC 229) – 2.4 million buys

White saying UFC 284 will break all pay-per-view records may be a bit of a stretch, considering neither UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev, nor UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski is a big draw.

That being said, this is perhaps the highest level match up the UFC has ever put on.

We have Makhachev, who’s 23-1 (12-1 UFC) as a professional that comes into the bout on an 11-fight win streak in the UFC’s most stacked division, then we have Volkanovski, who’s 25-1 (12-0 UFC) as a professional coming into the bout on a 22-fight win streak.

Makhachev just submitted Charles Oliveira to claim the title, a 3rd-degree black belt in BJJ with the most submission wins in UFC history, as well as the most submission wins in both the UFC’s featherweight and lightweight divisions.

Volkanovski on the other hand is a well established champion that’s gone 3-0 against Max Holloway, as well as defeating the likes of former longtime champion Jose Aldo and one of the greatest fighters ever to had never won a belt, Chad Mendes.

Volkanovski was also a multi-time champion before joining the UFC at featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight, and he also went 4-0 as an amateur, where he held a middleweight title.

So, we’ve got those two facing one another for the lightweight title, and we have an interim featherweight title clash between no. 2 ranked Yair Rodriguez and no. 5 ranked Jose Emmett, as well as the returns of Jack Della Maddalena, Jimmy Crute, Tyson Pedro, and many more.

We should all thank Mr. White and his team for putting this fight together, what an event this is touted to be!

Is Dana White right, does UFC 284 take the no. 1 spot on all-time PPV sales?

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