Longtime UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski believes Saturday’s UFC 290 title unification against interim champ Yair Rodriguez will be a crowd-pleaser.
Ahead of Alexander Volkanovski’s bold challenge of lightweight champion Islam Makhachev, the longtime featherweight champ opted to put on a little extra muscle.And ahead of his return to the division over which he has lorded since December 2019, he says the journey back down to 145 pounds for Saturday’s UFC 290 title unification against interim champ Yair Rodriguez has been just fine.
That mark includes five victories in UFC featherweight championship fights — three over Max Holloway, one of a trio of longtime great UFC champions in the weight class. “There’s a lot of … goals that I have, a lot of records I want to break. But at the same time, it’s the people I’m fighting as well,” says the 34-year-old. “I’m fighting the best guys there are, and our division’s a stacked division. So I’m gonna keep these [title] defenses going and, hopefully, break that incredible record that Aldo does hold. That’s definitely something I would love to do.
Rodriguez , the man he faces this weekend in Las Vegas, brings his own belt to the table after winning the interim crown on the same night Volkanovski lost his bid to claim a second division crown.
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