Contemporary off regaining the featherweight championship within the UFC 314 major occasion final Saturday, newly topped two-time titleholder Alexander Volkanovski mirrored on his historic win over Diego Lopes.
The 36-year previous Volkanovski turned the one fighter in a weight class under welterweight to win a championship after the age of 35, however Lopes proved to be more durable than “The Nice” thought.
“As you may see, I am fairly marked up. It was a little bit of a conflict we went via. Diego did nice,” Volkanovski mentioned on his YouTube channel. “Getting into, what did we count on from Diego? Just about we anticipated what we received. He was robust, most likely more durable than we thought. We knew he’d be robust, however he was even more durable once more than we thought. Like, on prime of what we thought.”
The bout was aggressive with every fighter having massive moments. Lopes knocked Volkanovski down with a mixture late within the second spherical. Volkanovksi had been knocked out in his two earlier fights and received his chin examined by Lopes.
“I feel I used to be completely happy that I used to be nonetheless capable of get hit. If I went on the market and did not get hit and kind of get my chin examined – You simply get much more out of it. That is a number of questions entering into for everyone and myself,” Volkanovski mentioned.
“Is he going to go lights out once more as quickly as you get touched? That wasn’t the case, so it was good. It was good to have a little bit of a conflict, undergo a little bit of adversity in there, and bounce again,” he continued. “You realize I do not shrink back from adversity. That struggle had slightly little bit of it in there.”
