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'Bulldoze these guys': Alexander Volkanovksi's vow on 2996-day Sydney homecoming
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Ahead of UFC325, UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski believes he is ready to take it to the next level against Diego Lopes. (2:24)
UFC Fight Night 121 is not a card fondly recalled in MMA circles, let alone for the 10,021 fans who travelled to Sydney's Qudos Bank Arena on Sunday Nov. 19, 2017.
The event, it seemed, was doomed almost from the outset. Whether it was heavyweight Mark Hunt's withdrawal from the main event due to "medical concerns" or Joanne Calderwood's scratching because of an "undisclosed injury", a doping violation for The Ultimate Fighter Series: Redemption winner Jesse Taylor, and then four separate weight misses on the card's eve, UFC Fight Night Sydney had more than its fair share of missteps.
Alex Volkanovski's glorious past meets an uncertain future at UFC 325
Alex Volkanovski will defend his featherweight title on home soil for the first time. (Getty Images via Zuffa LLC: Chris Unger)
It took less than five minutes for a question about his retirement to arrive, but Alex Volkanovski must have known it was coming.
Ahead of his UFC 325 rematch with Brazil's Diego Lopes in Sydney this Sunday, every interview, sooner or later, rounds back to the UFC featherweight champion's future or, given he is 37 in a sport where the young feast on the old, what might be left of it.
This press conference on Wednesday was no exception, and Volkanovski gave the same answer as ever — he knows the end is close, and that one day soon the gloves will come off for the last time and the rest of forever will start, but he is not rushing towards that day.
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