Calvin Kattar wants to keep his momentum going after his impressive victory over Dan Ige at UFC Fight Night and would be open to fighting former featherweight champion Max Holloway next. “That’d be great,” Kattar told MMANews. “…
Calvin Kattar wants to keep his momentum going after his impressive victory over Dan Ige at UFC Fight Night and would be open to fighting former featherweight champion Max Holloway next. “That’d be great,” Kattar told MMANews. “I know he’s a tough fighter. Another one of these guys that (featherweights) don’t want to compete against. […]
UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs Ige took place on Wednesday (July 15, 2020) from Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. In the main event featherweight contenders, Calvin Kattar and Dan Ige went to war for five rounds. Kattar got the decision on all three scorecards and now move one step closer to a shot at featherweight king Alexander […]
UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs Ige took place on Wednesday (July 15, 2020) from Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. In the main event featherweight contenders, Calvin Kattar and Dan Ige went to war for five rounds. Kattar got the decision on all three scorecards and now move one step closer to a shot at featherweight king Alexander Volkanovski.
Join LowKickMMA site manager Jordan Ellis and staff writer Ryan Galloway as they look back at the best bits from UFC Fight Island 1 and look forward to what is to come at UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs. Benavidez.
Calvin Kattar feels he has done more than enough to warrant a place as one of UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski’s next opponents. Kattar made it four wins in his last five outings following an impressive performance in his five-round battle with Dan Ige in the UFC Fight Island 1 headliner last night. “The Boston […]
Calvin Kattar feels he has done more than enough to warrant a place as one of UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski’s next opponents.
“The Boston Finisher” usually does his talking in the Octagon and hopes Volkanovski sees that — especially as the champion has repeatedly spoken of cleaning out the featherweight division.
“I mean if I make my case, I don’t got to do it with my mouth,” Kattar said at the post-fight press conference (via MMA Fighting). “I do it in the cage. Like all these other guys, they all talk. Where I’m from, we don’t really talk about stuff too much. You go out and prove it. You earn it. In here, that’s not really the business model, so it’s a little bit of an adjustment for me. I go out, I fight, and I try to earn every opportunity in front of me.
“The champ should see that. He’s saying he wants contenders. You’re not going to find one more ready than myself.”
Kattar: They Can’t Deny Me If I Keep Winning
Volkanovski — coming off a split decision win over Max Holloway this past weekend — was certainly watching the fight and will have seen Kattar’s callout of him after the fight.
Although it is not a guarantee Kattar will get the next shot, he certainly believes he is now on the radar of many of the top featherweights.
“I know I’m on these guys’ radar,” Kattar said. “I’m a problem to deal with, and they’re all starting to realize they’re going to have to deal with me soon.
“I keep winning, they can’t deny me. That was my mindset getting into the UFC. I didn’t ask to get in the UFC. I just said if I keep winning, they won’t deny me. They can’t deny me. There’s nothing they can do if you keep winning. That’s what I’m doing right now. If they don’t want to give me a title shot now, go out, get another win. They can’t keep denying me forever. Hopefully top five after this fight and that’s a short list.”
At least when it comes to activity in 2020, nobody else in the top five other than Holloway comes close to Kattar who is now 2-0 for the year following his earlier win over Jeremy Stephens in May.
“Who’s my competition?” Kattar added. “No one’s been busy in 2020. I think I’m doing well for myself competing, earning opportunities and I can’t really say much for everybody else in the division.”
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Calvin Kattar believes his next UFC fight should be for the featherweight title. In the main event of UFC Fight Island 1, Kattar beat Dan Ige by decision, in a fight many pundits, including two judges saw him winning four rounds. “The Boston Fini…
Calvin Kattar believes his next UFC fight should be for the featherweight title. In the main event of UFC Fight Island 1, Kattar beat Dan Ige by decision, in a fight many pundits, including two judges saw him winning four rounds. “The Boston Finisher” looked impressive and proved he could go five hard rounds. Now, […]
Calvin Kattar enjoyed a statement-making win at UFC Fight Island 1. Kattar took on Dan Ige in the event’s headliner in what was a back-and-forth encounter early on. However, “The Boston Finisher” soon started taking over and although he couldn’t get the desired finish over a durable Ige, he did do enough to get a […]
Calvin Kattar enjoyed a statement-making win at UFC Fight Island 1.
Kattar took on Dan Ige in the event’s headliner in what was a back-and-forth encounter early on.
However, “The Boston Finisher” soon started taking over and although he couldn’t get the desired finish over a durable Ige, he did do enough to get a clear-cut unanimous decision victory.
That puts him at four wins in his last five as he is now seemingly among the contenders for a potential featherweight title shot.
Earlier tonight (Wed. July 15th, 2020) UFC Fight Night: Kattar Vs. Ige took place from Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. The island hosted the main event bout between #6 ranked Featherweight Calvin Kattar and #10 ranked Dan Ige. What was a back and forth striking match seemingly began with Kattar taking the first round. In the […]
The island hosted the main event bout between #6 ranked Featherweight Calvin Kattar and #10 ranked Dan Ige. What was a back and forth striking match seemingly began with Kattar taking the first round. In the second round, the momentum began to swing with Ige landing a big shot on Kattar injuring his nose. The third and fourth rounds were both very competitive rounds that saw Kattar stuff many of Ige’s takdown attempts making it clear heading into the final round that Kattar was up on the scorecards. Ultimately the judges saw it for Kattar leading him to win by unanimous decision. Outside of the main event, this great night of fights provided plenty of moments warranting of receiving a bonus.
Fight of the Night came in the first bout on the main card between Mounir Lazzez and Abdul Razak Alhassan. Both high-level strikers, Alhassan came out immediately landed huge shots and looking as though the fight was soon to be stopped. Lazzez weathered the storm continuing to pick apart a tired Alhassan apart throughout the following rounds and secure himself the win.
The First Performance of the Night bonus was awarded to Modestas Bukauskas for him victory against Andreas Michailidis. Bukauskas edged out the exciting striking exchanges in the round landing a massive elbow right before the buzzer stunning Michailidis and making the referee call the fight off in between rounds.
The Second Performance of the Night bonus went to Lerone Murphy for his TKO victory against Ricardo Ramos. Ramos, who looked to grapple against Murphy was taken down and finished by the fighter in the final minute of the first round.
The Third Performance of the Night bonus went to Khamzat Chimaev for his dominant victory against John Phillips. Out the gate, Chimaev secured a takedown securing and beating down on Phillips for the majority of the round. Early in round two, it looks as though the same was about to ensue until Chimaev secured a darce choke to get the submission win and secure his bonus.