Alexander Volkanovski: It's my fault Beneil Dariush never got UFC title shot
Alexander Volkanovski holds himself accountable for Beneil Dariush never getting a UFC title shot. Dariush (23-7-1 MMA, 17-7-1 UFC) was once on an eight-fight winning streak, and on the cusp of title contention. Volkanovski was a dominant UFC featherweight champion who wanted to chase greatness, and wound up getting to fight for the lightweight title twice against Islam Makhachev during Dariush's run.
"I really do like Dariush," Volkanovski said on his YouTube channel . "I feel for him. ...
He should have fought for titles, and then that was when I obviously deserved my chance at champ-champ. I ended up taking where he probably would have been. "He would have been backup, he would have been next if it wasn't me, and then sh*t, I feel like it's my fault that he never got that title fight.
He's a good dude, too, and definitely deserved it at that time. But obviously people say I deserved it, and that's a fight that ended up happening. He was meant to pretty much get it after that, but he ended up losing and sort of went south from there.
" Dariush saw his winning streak snapped by Charles Oliveira. He has now lost three of his past four fights, and will look to rebound when he takes on Quillan Salkilld (11-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) in Saturday's UFC Fight Night 275 ( Paramount+ ) co-main event at RAC Arena in Perth, Western Australia. This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: How Alexander Volkanovski thinks he cost Beneil Dariush UFC title shot