Former champion gives UFC 325 main event | MMA News
A featherweight championship rematch headlined Saturday’s UFC 325 battle card in Sydney, Australia. Two-time titleholder Alexander Volkanovski places his title on the road against Diego Lopes.
Volkanovski and Lopes first fought last April in the UFC 314 main event. “The Great” received via unanimous resolution to turn into a two-time featherweight titleholder. The rematch will probably be Volkanovski’s first title protection of his second championship reign. Lopes picked up a TKO win over Jean Silva in September to earn a second battle against the champion.
Former welterweight titleholder Belal Muhammad believes Volkanovski put in a close to excellent efficiency in the first battle with Lopes and wants to stick to what labored.
“Volk did a beautiful job of sticking to that jab, low kicks, controlling the pace of the fight, controlling the range of the fight. I thought Volk basically fought the perfect fight against Lopes that fight. I think he had only one little slip up where he got rocked. Other than that, I thought it was a super clean fight for Volk and one of his best performances,” Muhammad said on his YouTube channel.
“I think Volk has to establish that jab again. Get Diego going on his back foot,” Muhammad continued. “Volk just can’t get caught into that chaos. He did get rocked that fight and you’re still coming off two knockouts before that, right? We saw that his chin could hold up and it did hold up the last fight, but you don’t want to keep playing with it because you never know when your chin is done.”
Muhammad suggested Lopes to not do what he did in their first battle, and to be more lively in the early rounds.
“For Lopes, you can’t do what you did last fight. I don’t know if it was your first title fight, nerves, didn’t know if you could go five rounds, but didn’t do much especially in the early rounds. You’ve got to do what you’re good at. That’s bringing the chaos, brining the damage” Muhammad said. “You’ve got to start in the first round. Just let it all out there.”
“My pick for this one, I don’t know. I really wish Volk would have retired after the last one. It was a great win. Diego had a lot of hype,” said Muhammad. “It’s just hard to fight somebody back to back.”
“You know Diego is going to come better. I don’t know if Volk could come better, so I’m picking Diego in this one.”
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