Alexander Volkanovski eyes superfight with Conor McGregor
UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski is arguably one of the best to ever compete in mixed martial arts at 145-pounds. The now two-time champion in his weight class recently sat down with Josh Mansour on Unscripted for a raw and unfiltered chat and talked about a potential superfight down the road.
“Probably Conor, man (I would pick to fight), a lot of people are gonna sit there and be like, ‘Oh yeah Conor is a boring answer’ but he was in the featherweight division, that era when he was just an absolute superstar,” Volkanovski.
“The position you could put yourself in just fighting that guy. When you talk about building your platform, when we talk about money and all of that… The platform you on, you need to take advantage of it and that’s one fast track to getting people to notice you.
“He was a good fighter, he was a great fighter. He was another fighter that his accuracy, he was actually a bit ahead of his time, he was really good, I don’t think people give him credit… He had great timing, great set ups, good understanding of what works and what works for him, and yeah, he was sharp.
“A lot of that is gone now he’s probably gonna be reasonably sharp but he’s never gonna be the same Conor McGregor,” Volk continued.
Volkanovski defeated Diego Lopes at UFC 314 earlier this year to claim the vacant time, his second belt under the UFC banner.
McGregor is a former two-division champion, holding belts at both featherweight and lightweight.
