Alexander Volkanovski has established himself as one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the sport, but there’s one moment he feels solidified his place in MMA history. The UFC’s featherweight champion is fresh off a unanimous decision win over Max …
Alexander Volkanovski has established himself as one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the sport, but there’s one moment he feels solidified his place in MMA history. The UFC’s featherweight champion is fresh off a unanimous decision win over Max Holloway in the co-main event of UFC 276, which was Volkanovski’s third victory against the…
Brian Ortega is laying down who he would put on his UFC featherweight GOAT list. At this moment in time, the UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski looks pretty unstoppable. He has won his last 22 professional fights, including defending the …
Brian Ortega is laying down who he would put on his UFC featherweight GOAT list. At this moment in time, the UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski looks pretty unstoppable. He has won his last 22 professional fights, including defending the UFC title four times. One of those defenses came over Brian Ortega at UFC 266….
Top five UFC featherweights Brian Ortega and Yair Rodriguez will clash this Saturday in Elmont, New York. Ortega is looking to work his way back into becoming a contender for the UFC featherweight championship. He lost his last fight against the champi…
Top five UFC featherweights Brian Ortega and Yair Rodriguez will clash this Saturday in Elmont, New York. Ortega is looking to work his way back into becoming a contender for the UFC featherweight championship. He lost his last fight against the champion Alexander Volkanovski by unanimous decision at UFC 266 on Sep. 25, 2021. Although…
UFC featherweight contender Yair Rodriguez claims the UFC plans to give him the next featherweight title shot if he can get past Brian Ortega. Rodriguez will make his return to the Octagon this Saturday in the UFC Long Island main event. He hasn’…
UFC featherweight contender Yair Rodriguez claims the UFC plans to give him the next featherweight title shot if he can get past Brian Ortega. Rodriguez will make his return to the Octagon this Saturday in the UFC Long Island main event. He hasn’t fought since his five-round war with former champion Max Holloway last November,…
Ahead of his potential UFC featherweight title-eliminator against Yair Rodriguez this weekend at UFC Fight Night Long Island, two-time title challenger, Brian Ortega has insisted that he is a truly “dangerous” opponent for division champion, Alexander Volkanovski – as he targets a title re-run. Ortega, who has challenged both Max Holloway and Volkanoski unsuccessfully for […]
Ahead of his potential UFC featherweight title-eliminator against Yair Rodriguez this weekend at UFC Fight Night Long Island, two-time title challenger, Brian Ortega has insisted that he is a truly “dangerous” opponent for division champion, Alexander Volkanovski – as he targets a title re-run.
Ortega, who has challenged both Max Holloway and Volkanoski unsuccessfully for undisputed featherweight gold in the past, is slated to return this weekend in the main event of UFC Fight Night Long Island – tackling Chihuahua striking ace, Rodriguez.
However, credited for his performance against the New South Wales technician, Ortega almost managed to lock up both guillotine and triangle choke variant submissions against Volkanovski – coming arguably as close as possible to finishing the dominant featherweight best, without landing a win.
Brian Ortega believes onlookers noticed his performance against Alexander Volkanovski
Previewing his featherweight showdown with Rodriguez this weekend, Ortega insisted he is a dangerous opponent for Volkanovski as he attempts to land a title rematch.
“I would love that personally because I feel like from what the world’s seeing is he’s won the belt, he’s defended the belt, and the one person that gave him the hardest time was me,” Brian Ortega told Inside Fighting during a recent interview. “(I) put him in the most danger he’s ever been in his career. …”
“I just put him in the most danger and people noticed that, people saw,” Brian Ortega explained. “I’m just a deadly opponent for him. Obviously, I’m always gonna train to win, to fight this guy and beat this guy. I believe I have the tools and capabilities to do so if I play my cards right. So it’s all about seeing how I can play my cards right and going in there and finishing this man (Yair Rodriguez).”
Without a victory since October 2020, Ortega managed to turn in a one-sided unanimous decision win over Chan Sung Jung on ‘Fight Island’ in his first Octagon appearance in over two years.
UFC featherweight Josh Emmett believes that his place at the front of the title contention queue should be safe no matter the result of Yair Rodriguez’s fight against Brian Ortega. At UFC Austin last month, Emmett staked his claim for his first s…
UFC featherweight Josh Emmett believes that his place at the front of the title contention queue should be safe no matter the result of Yair Rodriguez’s fight against Brian Ortega. At UFC Austin last month, Emmett staked his claim for his first shot at the 145-pound gold in a tight five-round affair against Calvin Kattar….