Alexander Volkanovski sends strong message to Movsar Evloev
Two-time featherweight champion Alex Volkanovski successfully 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 decision win over No. 3 ranked Lerone Murphy in the UFC London main event last Saturday.
The fight was billed as a title eliminator bout. Volkanovski tuned in for the match and thought Evloev succumbed to pressure with his game plan. "The Great" believes the undefeated Evloev tried to be 'more exciting,' but didn't 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.