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Former UFC champion TJ Dillashaw thinks Movsar Evloev gave up in his UFC 333 main event defeat to Alexander Volkanovski.
In the main event of UFC 333, Alexander Volkanovski really put on a clinic as he finished Movsar Evloev in their featherweight title fight. While a defeat for Evloev certainly wasn’t out of the question, many were taken aback by the manner in which Volkanovski was able to get the job done.
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Movsar Evloev is an incredibly impressive fighter in his own right but when stacked up against someone as overwhelmingly talented and tenured as Volkanovski, a defeat like this was always a possibility.
In a recent podcast, TJ Dillashaw gave his thoughts on what played out between Alexander Volkanovski and Movsar Evloev.
TJ Dillashaw on Movsar Evloev’s loss to Alexander Volkanovski
“I couldn’t believe he wasn’t more of a favorite,” Dillashaw said of Volkanovski on the “JAXXON PODCAST.” “He wasn’t an underdog, but it was like almost close. I was like, ‘No f*cking way.’ I put some good money on Volk, and I won. I mean, it went down how I thought it was going to go down. Volk is just too calculated. He does a really good job of moving his feet, which is going to be hard for the takedowns to come. Yes, we saw some come, but again, bounces right back to his feet. We’ve seen that (Islam) Makhachev had trouble holding him down. So how is Evloev going to hold him down?
“I knew he’s going to get back to his feet, calculate his shots, and when the turning of the tide really happened – because Round 1, it was good, it was close. But in Round 2, when Volk reversed him off that takedown, he was going to take him down to reach back almost like a switch and ended up on top. As soon as that happened, you just seen, like, all of the thought process of Evloev that he was going to win just drained from him.
“After that, he got hit with some big shots and kind of folded because it wasn’t like he was super hurt. He just kind of gave up and covered. I would have been fighting back for the life of me to try to get that belt, but after he got reversed, in my opinion, is like, ‘F*ck, Volk’s too good for me.’”
Quotes via MMA Junkie
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