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Alexander Volkanovski’s coach Frank Hickman recently detailed how the UFC featherweight champion has managed to make such tremendous strides as a wrestler during his fighting career. Volkanovski is set to headline UFC 284 in his native Australia, and h…
Alexander Volkanovski’s coach Frank Hickman recently detailed how the UFC featherweight champion has managed to make such tremendous strides as a wrestler during his fighting career. Volkanovski is set to headline UFC 284 in his native Australia, and he’ll attempt to become a two-division champion when he takes on Islam Makhachev in the latter’s first…
Continue Reading Coach Explains Rapid Growth Of Alexander Volkanovski’s Wrestling at MMA News.
UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski seems confident ahead of UFC 284. For the first time in his UFC career, ‘The Great’ will be moving out of the featherweight class. Standing in his way of two-division supremacy is current UFC…
UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski seems confident ahead of UFC 284. For the first time in his UFC career, ‘The Great’ will be moving out of the featherweight class. Standing in his way of two-division supremacy is current UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev. At UFC 280, Makhachev used his elite-level wrestling and grappling to get…
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Ahead of his upcoming UFC 284 headliner against featherweight champion, Alexander Volkanovski in two weeks’ time in Perth, Australia – undisputed lightweight champion, Islam Makhachev has voiced his concern with the organization’s promotion of the bout, given the stakes up for grabs between the pound-for-pound pack leaders. Makhachev, who will attempt his first defence of […]
Ahead of his upcoming UFC 284 headliner against featherweight champion, Alexander Volkanovski in two weeks’ time in Perth, Australia – undisputed lightweight champion, Islam Makhachev has voiced his concern with the organization’s promotion of the bout, given the stakes up for grabs between the pound-for-pound pack leaders.
Makhachev, who will attempt his first defence of the undisputed lightweight title at the RAC Arena ‘Down Under’, grabbed the vacant crown at UFC 280 back in October on ‘Fight Island’ – submitting former champion, Charles Oliveira with a dominant second round arm-triangle choke.
As for Volkanovski, the New South Wales favorite will defend his status as pound-for-pound number one against Islam Makhachev, while also attempting to add lightweight spoils to his featherweight crown.
Most recently, the dominant 145lbs champion handed former division kingpin, Max Holloway a third career loss in their UFC 276 trilogy co-main event slot during International Fight Week last summer.
Immediately pitted together following Makhachev’s victory over Oliveira back in October in Abu Dhabi, UAE, the American Kickboxing Academy mainstay has voiced his displeasure given the apparent lack of promotion from the UFC for their return to Australia for the first time since 2019.
“I’m unhappy with the promotion of UFC 284,” Islam Makhachev said ahead of his title defense opposite Alexander Volkanovski. “(It) feels like the UFC could have done a better job promotion the fight.”
Undefeated in his last 11 consecutive Octagon appearances, Makhachev would become the first Russian fighter to top the official pound-for-pound UFC rankings with a win over Volkanovski since teammate and former lightweight champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov, before he bowed out of the sport in 2020.
However, despite Nurmagomedov’s presence in Makahchev’s corner for his title coronation against Oliveira, the fan-favorite sambo ace will miss this month’s trip to Australia to corner the undisputed lightweight best.
The featherweight world champion Alexander Volkanovski will soon be going up in weight to challenge the lightweight king Islam Makhachev at UFC 284. Islam Makhachev is a dangerous Dagestani wrestler, trained by Khabib Nurmagomedov, and will have a size advantage in this bout. With all these factors, Australia’s Volkanovski says; don’t forget these when he […]
The featherweight world champion Alexander Volkanovski will soon be going up in weight to challenge the lightweight king Islam Makhachev at UFC 284. Islam Makhachev is a dangerous Dagestani wrestler, trained by Khabib Nurmagomedov, and will have a size advantage in this bout. With all these factors, Australia’s Volkanovski says; don’t forget these when he wins.
In an interview on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, Alexander ‘The Great’ Volkanovski explained:
“The way people are talking. It’s funny, people quickly forget. At the end of the day, they’ll forget again when I get my hand raised … There’s a narrative right now … But there’s a lot of people who are going to doubt me, which I love, all that type of stuff, undersized, Dagestani wrestler, that’s good, but remember that. Don’t change the narrative when I get my hand raised.”
With all the talk of being an underdog in this fight, the featherweight king loves the position he’s in. Alexander Volkanovski said:
“I like it. I’m all good with it. Especially moving up with the lightweight title and all that stuff, fighting someone like this. We want this for legacy. I never used to talk like this, I never used to talk about legacy fights. Now I’m all about it. Now I’m all for the big fights.”
Alexander Volkanovski used to never care about his legacy in MMA, but this is now changing with UFC 284 just around the corner. Volkanovski has impressive wins over Jose Aldo, Chad Mendes, Brian Ortega, and Max Holloway, among others, but says Islam Makhachev, and being undersized, might be the best one. In his interview with Ariel Helwani, he explained:
“I love the underdog story. I love that being the underdog and people saying I’m undersized. It just adds to the story. It just adds to the victory. You talk about legacy, winning a belt, being the champ-champ, yeah that’s cool, but beating guys like Islam, while doing that, that’s different. How many people can say that they’ve moved up and won a title off an opponent like Islam.”
See the full interview below:
Alexander Volkanovski feels Khabib Nurmagomedov’s corner absence at UFC 284 won’t impact Islam Makhachev at all on fight night. Volkanovski will face Nurmagomedov’s protégé Makhachev in the UFC 284 headliner on February 11th. He’…
Alexander Volkanovski feels Khabib Nurmagomedov’s corner absence at UFC 284 won’t impact Islam Makhachev at all on fight night. Volkanovski will face Nurmagomedov’s protégé Makhachev in the UFC 284 headliner on February 11th. He’s looking to become the latest UFC ‘champ-champ’ by earning the lightweight title. Makhachev capped off his remarkable run at lightweight with…
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No.5-ranked UFC lightweight Michael Chandler recently weighed in on a hypothetical bout with UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev. ‘Iron’ last fought at UFC 281. There, he fell to Dustin Poirier in a bloody Fight of the Night winner. De…
No.5-ranked UFC lightweight Michael Chandler recently weighed in on a hypothetical bout with UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev. ‘Iron’ last fought at UFC 281. There, he fell to Dustin Poirier in a bloody Fight of the Night winner. Despite displaying explosive offense, a badly busted up Chandler ultimately succumbed to a third-round rear-naked choke. Despite…
Continue Reading Michael Chandler Predicts How Wrestling Match With Islam Makhachev Would Go at MMA News.