Regardless of holding three victories over fellow former featherweight champion, Max Holloway, Australian favourite, Alexander Volkanovski has welcomed the prospect to battle the Hawaiian for a fourth time – significantly now the latter holds the symbolic BMF title.
Volkanovski, a former undisputed featherweight champion and a previous pound-for-pound primary beneath the banner of the promotion, has been sidelined since he took most important occasion honors at UFC 298 again in February in Anaheim.
And dropping his first loss at 145lbs since his transfer to the Dana White-led group, Volkanovski’s spectacular title run at featherweight was halted in blistering trend by the unbeaten, Ilia Topuria – who completed the New South Wales native with a shocking second spherical KO.
As for Holloway, the previous featherweight kingpin most not too long ago featured at UFC 300 final month, scoring a brutal fifth spherical highlight-reel knockout win over Justin Gaethje to win the beforehand famous BMF belt.
Alexander Volkanovski welcomes BMF conflict with Max Holloway
Weighing up potential title fights in opposition to each champions, Islam Makhachev, and Ilia Topuria, respectively – Holloway could have an opportunity to battle Volkanovski sooner or later for a fourth time – given his latest BMF title acquisition.
“Would I battle him (Max Holloway) a fourth time? I imply, now that he’s bought a BMF ‘Now That He is Acquired The BMF Belt, We Would possibly Have To Do This’ we would have to do that, you realize what I imply?” Alexander Volkanovski instructed Australian outlet, Primary Occasion TV on Fox Sports activities. “I used to be at all times considering, ‘How may you do it [a fourth fight]?’ However possibly there may be that one thing there – I imply, there’s a BMF ‘Now That He is Acquired The BMF Belt, We Would possibly Have To Do This’ now.”
“Possibly it’s like, for me – it’s 3-0, how are you going to get your self off the bed for that?” Alexander Volkanovski defined. “A BMF ‘Now That He is Acquired The BMF Belt, We Would possibly Have To Do This’ is one thing I haven’t touched earlier than, so you realize? Possibly we are able to do this, you realize? So we’ll see what occurs.”
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