Dan Hardy believes we might see Alexander Volkanovski’s MMA swan tune at UFC 325.
After handily defeating Diego Lopes in April, the two will run it back this Saturday when the promotion returns to The Land Down Beneath for an additional packed evening of fights.
Volkanovski, 37, will defend his featherweight title for the primary time since reclaiming it towards Lopes in April. However with ‘The Nice’ having few challengers and little left to show, some recommend that Volk could also be prepared to put down his gloves — win or lose — in entrance of the hometown crowd.
“It might make sense, wouldn’t it?” Hardy mentioned throughout an interview with Submission Radio. “It might be the sensible factor to do. From an out of doors perspective, it’s tough for anyone from the skin to recommend what a fighter would wish to do. Particularly if he has an excellent efficiency, he is perhaps like, ‘Man, I’m nonetheless…’ And he’s on that massive contract as effectively. The thought of him combating Lerone Murphy is only a killer. It’d be an awesome alternative for Lerone to get the shot, however I like Volk. It’s like time to let the younger crowd take over. I feel particularly as a result of he’s bought so many good alternatives.
“It’s completely different for fighters. Like [Justin] Gaethje, I might think about he’s bought different alternatives outdoors of combined martial arts, however he’s nonetheless all in. Whereas Volk has so many different issues that he may very well be doing as effectively. It is perhaps a bit simpler for him to step away than it could for different individuals maybe. However I don’t know — the adrenaline rush and strolling out in Sydney and the reception he’s going to get and the love throughout the week — I don’t know, it’s arduous to stroll away from that regardless of how a lot of an ass kicking you get generally.”
Volkanovski is 14-3 underneath the UFC banner, his solely losses in the course of the decade-long run coming towards two-division champions Islam Makhachev and Ilia Topuria. Alongside the way in which, he’s earned wins over Brian Ortega, Max Holloway, ‘The Korean Zombie’ Chan Sung Jung, Jose Aldo, Chad Mendes, and Yair Rodriguez.
Will ‘The Nice’ experience off into the sundown following his 18th stroll to the Octagon at UFC 324, or will or not it’s simply one other evening on the workplace for the best featherweight in MMA historical past?
