The fact that the old, again new in the fifty UFC division, and anyone who was injured by the old wars, suffered serious memories on the UFC 314. Alexander Volkanovsky did not just appear to see what remained in the aquarium in Miami; He appeared to call us all gossip. Paniceres.
People who I must have forgottenField
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Alexander ” Still The Great ”Volkanovsky performed with the performance of the master class in the beating of Diego Lopez to win the fifty -light title. He looked just like an old Volkanovsky. Extremely smart. Lighting is quickly, with all its longings of the brand and pop music. And as fearless as the dictator, still deep in his mode.
This news must have been catastrophic for those who hoped for wider opportunities in a wide open new era. Max Holloway, there is no point in adhere to 145 pounds if you still hope hopes for the name. Bane of your existence wears a large belt buckle again. Yair Rodriguez, although you had dreams of the struggle for the title in Guadalahhara, come in the fall, Volkanovsky was already there, did it.
Poor Brian Ortega. This title is now in a million miles. A million damn miles.
When you think about it, this is an incredible turn of events. Usually, when they begin to ride on loans in your career, this means that it’s over. They did this on Volkanovsky after he lost his fifty -light title in Elijah Topuria in February 2024 at the UFC 298, being brutally knocked out in the second round. This was made even more vivid, because less than four months earlier, Volkanovsky intervened in the injured Charles Oliveira to make the aspiration of the hot Islam Makhachev and also knocked him out.
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The first was an opportunity, which became terribly incorrect, “ill-fated”, as they like to speak in Thinkpieces. The second was a terrible decision that made the champion of the spite … What? Sad twilight? Glue factory? The place where the washed champions go to contemplate exactly where everything went wrong?
The “envelopes” signs were all there. Knockouts. His advanced age 36 (floor). Doubts surround him. The appearance of hungry young rivals, such as Lopez.
And yet, after 14 months, he appeared on the South Bich, updated and crushed, using his time to let things cool. At that time, he learned to better inactive without a fight on the horizon, the prospects that scared him at those spiral moments when he jumped from the pan (Makhachev) into the fire (Topuria). He ate better. He drank less.
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And he heard everything.
He heard that the former champions have a very limited success, trying to return their titles, especially after a damned, decrepit age of 35 years. He heard that Lopez wanted this fight more than anything, because he saw him as a coronation. He heard the debate about who was the best champion in the fifty -lightweight weight for all time, with his name in a conversation with the name. He heard that this was his last shot so as not to sleep. Lost it, and the decrease is real. No number of misconceptions can bother with a long pink strip on the Wikipedia page.
Alexander Volkanovski (on the right) turned the watch on Diego Lopez on the UFC 314. (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)
(Megan Briggs via Getty Images)
No, the wolf arrived at the scene, like a man, to pick up the lost possession. He replaced the bulbs in the dimly lit stars that sat over his losses, and made them sit as brightly as his five defenders of the title. You could feel this at the beginning of the first round, when he began to find his rhythm, raising pictures and taking smart reprimands on each advance. He meant business, and it was clear.
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Some people wondered why Lopez did not hunt his heads, as he usually did, why he did not rush forward, trying to check the chin of the wolf. It was because he processed too much information at the same time. His eyes were like rotating beach balls, what we had seen before with Jose Aldo, Holloway, Rodriguez and Chad Mendes. The moment came, and he was caught between the preservation of energy in his first battle from the five rounds, respecting the change in the level for the blow, and the eating of a blow to which he had practically no appetite.
Classical wolf, human whirlwind.
The Saturday speech resembled the third struggle in Hollowe, when Max, who had already spent 50 minutes in the octagon, trying to solve the great puzzle of Australia, felt that he was in the whirlwind of the repeating nightmare. All that he tried in this battle, the wolf predicted, opposed and punished. The wolf almost expected each of its movements and adapted to things that it is not in real time. He switched positions, levels and perception when turning a trilogy into laughter. At times, the wolf Max saw a double.
It looks like Lopez, at least had his own moments. In the second round, he fell out a large shot, which threw Volkanovsky and made the round a little more hard to score. In the fourth break, he landed on fishing and cut him, temporarily forcing Volkanovsky to miss his vision in his left eye. Between the fourth and fifth he recovered, and put an exclamation mark on what would be as a virtuoso performance.
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Will it be the following Movsar Evloev? At some point, will he return to Topuria? How far Arnold Allen, or Leron Murphy, or Gene Silva from the call of Volkanovsky? This is the madness that we will ask such questions again.
“Holy of hardships is a privilege,” the wolf said in an interview after a fight with Joe Rogan.
This is so, and guess what else? Watching Alexander Volkanovsky proves all of us who doubted him incorrectly.
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