He has done it! The ‘Volk of old’ is back. Alexander Volkanovski is champ again, baby! With his gruelling, hard fought victory over the young and destructive Diego Lopes, the Aussie great joins fellow featherweight icon Jose Aldo as the only man to recapture the 145-pound crown in the history of the UFC.
And as you can imagine with a guy as nice and sporting as ‘Volk’, the MMA world in jubilant. Including his former opponents like Islam Makhachev. “Congrats Legend,” Makhachev wrote on his Instagram Story along with a picture of the two-time UFC featherweight champ with his belt after the Lopes victory.
Makhachev, of course, became the first man to not only beat Volkanovski at their fairly close UFC 284 clash, but also went on to knock the nigh unstoppable Aussie out at their UFC 294 rematch. And ‘The Great’s victory over Lopes just goes to show how impressive Makhachev’s two victories (and indeed Topuria’s knockout win) over him were.
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