UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski doesn’t see moving up in weight as ‘that big of a challenge’ as ‘The Great’ prepares to make the leap to 155 in a bid to become the UFC’s next two-division champ.
Volkanovski will have virtually cleared out the featherweight division if he defeats Max Holloway for a third time, so the next logical step would be for the Aussie to move up to lightweight in pursuit of a fresh challenge. And, in all honesty, he thinks it will be much easier than people think.
“I’m moving up soon, I’m going to go out here and do what I plan on doing in f*cking several weeks,” Volkanovski told Ariel Helwani during a recent appearance on The MMA Hour (h/t BJPenn.