Alexander Volkanovski sends strong message to | MMA News
Two-time featherweight champion Alex Volkanovski efficiently defended his title for the first of his second championship reign in February and is awaiting his next opponent.
Top 145-pound contender Movsar Evloev seemingly earned a title shot with his majority choice win over No. 3 ranked Lerone Murphy in the UFC London main event last Saturday. The battle was billed as  a title eliminator bout.
Volkanovski tuned in for the match and thought Evloev succumbed to stress with his sport plan. “The Great” believes the undefeated Evloev tried to be ‘more thrilling,’ but did not pull it off.
“Interesting sort of fight. One thing that I was quite surprised with was Movsar wanting to stand,” Volkanovski said on his YouTube channel. “I feel like, you know, he said, he was acting like (it was) a bit of the game plan and I felt like it was forced. Whether forced, I’m not saying the UFC told him he had to do it, but maybe he just felt that pressure and was like, ‘I can’t just keep wrestling. They’re not going to give me a shot. I’m going to have to stand.’ Which he ended up winning anyway. I thought he looked like the better fighter. Lerone maybe looked a little bit better in the first half, but not much was happening.
“It was humorous because Mosvar, as soon as he wished to grapple and wrestle, even then it wasn’t like he just shot for those. It was more, because he actually did not need to do it, but he’d fire and he was there and would just grab, and the takedown was just kind of there. The alternative was there and it was just intuition and he would get him down so simple,” continued Volkanovski. “He wasn’t ready to maintain him very simply, but he still managed him fairly comfortably.”
Jerone Murphy is not Alexander Volkanovski, though. And the champion pointed that out in a strong message to the top contender.
“Obviously that battle was No. 1 contender,” Volkanovski said. “I do not care about it because it ain’t going to be a boring battle with me because you ain’t holding me down. I can guarantee you that. That’s one factor that I’m very assured in,” Volkanovski said.
“One factor I did say, I said in the post-show when I did like a live feed, a live post-reaction show. It was through the UFC straight after the show. And I’m just saying to him, I’m like, I do not need you to really feel like you’ve got to strike with me and all this. I do not need any excuses. I would like you attempting to spam the wrestling because I do know you ain’t going to get them. If you probably did get me to the ground, I’m bouncing straight back up and I’m going to pressure you to battle on the toes anyway,” continued the champion.
“That’s why I do know that fashion ain’t going to be boring when you are battle me because no one going to sit there and control me in a place. If something, if he desires to strive and take me down, I guess you I end up on top and do more harm than him in that side anyway … I would like him to do whatever he thinks he can. I would like him to just strive and win. He’s clearly a winner. He is aware of how to win. And I would like him to strive that with me just to show him, yeah, you realize how to win but not against me. You do not know how to win against me. And I can actually show that. I’m very assured in that.”
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