Huge Russian heavyweight Alexander Volkov gave the surest signal yet that he is willing for a hurry at heavyweight gold after the 6ft 7in striker earned a TKO capture against fellow passe Alistair Overeem in Las Vegas Saturday evening.
Volkov became sooner to the punch for the bulk of the less-than-two-spherical contest, landing a barrage of clubbing blows on the Dutch extinct world title challenger and in the end done him with a clubbing blow which despatched Overeem to his knees in the 2nd. The capture is Volkov’s seventh in the UFC (against exact two defeats) and areas him firmly in the conversation to be in line to face the winner of March’s title tilt between Stipe Miocic and Francis Ngannou — and even inserting him in the sweepstakes to face Jon Jones later this year.
Afterwards though, Volkov said that a UFC title is his procedure.
“I have to fight for the belt, for sure,” Volkov said by potential of MMA Junkie. “However we’ll stumble on. We’ll bear some exact fights in the long term at heavyweight, so we’ll stumble on how it finishes and we’ll stumble on what shall be my location. However for sure, I’d take to bear interaction a title shot.
“I really feel really enraged and I really feel wide. It’s my time, and I’m coming for the belt.
I work a lot. I really feel now I’m in really exact form, but for sure in the long term I’ll be feeling higher and better. So here is now no longer the tip of my form and my make,” he added. “I will enhance and I’m searching to make now no longer easy camps, engaged on all my talents that I didn’t rep earlier than, and I’ve change into higher
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