Former UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski has an concept how this weekend’s UFC 313 most important occasion will go.
Volk, who will tackle Diego Lopes in April for the recently-vacated UFC featherweight championship, says that 205-pound champ Alex Pereira has an excessive amount of energy in his fingers for the once-defeated Russian Magomed Ankalaev as he backed ‘Poatan’ to increase his unbeaten streak contained in the T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas on Saturday night time.
“Pereira’s confidence and understanding — he’s at all times had a great understanding, however now an excellent higher understanding of the grappling, takedown protection, and all that form of stuff,” Volkanovski stated on his personal YouTube channel. “And figuring out that, I don’t suppose Magomed — even when he does get to the bottom — goes to complete him, and it’s gonna return to the ft. I feel he’s gonna be capable of deal with that. I feel he can deal with that.”
Russia’s Ankalaev is, after all, no slouch on the ft having gained 10 of his 19 wins by knockout however as Volkanovski explains, there are ranges to this.
“On the ft, Anakalev, nice fighter. Southpaw, does some nice issues. Can look very efficient on his ft, however Pereira is insanely good on the ft,” he stated.
“There’s a few habits that Anakalev has. You get the fitting man in entrance of you, like Alex Pereira, and also you’re doing among the habits that you just at all times do. He’s gonna capitalise on it immediately, or even when he picks up on these habits throughout a combat, he’ll capitalise fairly rapidly. He’s that good, he’s bought that good of eyes, that composed, he’s that level-headed.”
And as for his official prediction?
“I’m gonna go along with the favourite on this one,” he stated. “Alex Pereira, KO, I’m gonna go along with TKO/KO. I don’t suppose it’s gonna be early rounds, [he] may undoubtedly do it immediately. I’m considering perhaps second or third spherical TKO.”
