‘Taekwondo Volk’s Gonna Come For Him’

Forward of his UFC 290 title unification headliner with interim gold holder, Yair Rodríguez this weekend, fellow featherweight champion, Alexander Volkanovski has vowed to implement a taekwondo-heavy type to outstrike the dynamic kicker.

Volkanovski, who will try to land the fifth profitable protection of his featherweight title reign as he takes on Mexican challenger, Rodríguez this weekend, may also look to return to the winner’s enclosure for the primary time since his UFC tenure started.

Headlining his native Australia again in February, Volkanovski suffered an in depth, unanimous choice loss to light-weight champion, Islam Makhachev in an unsuccesful pursuit of two-division champion standing in Perth.

Alexander Volkanovski envisions outstriking Yair Rodríguez at UFC 290 this weekend

And drawing Rodríguez this weekend in ‘Sin Metropolis’ – Volkanovski, who is basically closing as a favourite to defeat the Chihuahua striker, has laid out plans to defeat the previous at his personal putting sport.

“Everybody is aware of that I like to take folks out at their very own sport as properly,” Alexander Volkanovski instructed NBC Sports. “I like actually difficult folks and exhibiting folks how huge my skillset is, how well-rounded I actually am. The Taekwondo problem excites me.”

“I can’t wait to throw some spinning heel kicks, and ‘Taekwondo Volk’s’ gonna come for Yair (Rodríguez), you realize, actually beat him at his personal sport,” Alexander Volkanovski continued. (H/T MMA News)

In prior profitable title defenses, Volkanovski has landed a pair of rematch and subsequent title trilogy bout wins over common-foe, Max Holloway – in addition to stopping common-foe, Chan Sung Jung, and taking a unanimous choice victory over one other common-opponent, Brian Ortega throughout his time as undisputed featherweight kingpin.

En path to his interim featherweight title over Josh Emmett at UFC 284 again in February as well, The Final Fighter victor, Rodriguez landed a primary spherical TKO win over Ortega, who suffered a shoulder harm following a submission try from the previous.