\u201cDrago\u201d is ready to show off his entire skillset.<\/p>\n
On paper, Volkov vs. Almeida<\/a> is a classic striker vs. grappler showdown \u2014 Almeida brings a world-class ground game, while Volkov is one of the division\u2019s most polished strikers. Still, don\u2019t expect \u201cDrago\u201d to shy away from grappling exchanges. He\u2019s actually looking forward to proving how well-rounded he\u2019s become.<\/p>\n \u201c\u201cHis style is pretty understandable to me. He doesn\u2019t hide it,\u201d Volkov told UFC.com<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s going to do his jiu-jitsu, ground and wrestling game, that\u2019s it. So I\u2019ve prepared for this. It\u2019s a good opportunity for me to show my ground and wrestling skills. I like that he gave me this opportunity to train my grappling more. It\u2019s a great opportunity to show the world that I have good wrestling and jiu-jitsu too.\u201d<\/p>\n While Volkov is best known for his knockout power<\/a>, he\u2019s no stranger to submissions \u2014 boasting four career wins by tapout, including a rare Ezekiel choke over Tai Tuivasa (watch highlights<\/a>). Still, with 24 knockouts on his resume<\/a>, Volkov believes this one ends the way most of his fights do \u2014 violently.<\/p>\n \u201cI think there is a big chance to knock him out,\u201d Volkov said. \u201cI feel like I\u2019ll have a lot of opportunities for this. But whatever happens will happen \u2014 it\u2019s a fight, it\u2019s Heavyweight. But there will be a lot of chances to knock him out.\u201d<\/p>\n The 38-year-old Russian is coming off a controversial robbery loss<\/a> to Ciryl Gane last December, which snapped his four-fight win streak that included three impressive finishes.<\/p>\n Remember that MMAmania.com<\/a> will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC 321 fight card<\/a>, starting with the ESPN+\/Disney+\/FX<\/a> \u201cPrelims\u201d matches online, which are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET, before the main card start time at 2 p.m. ET (also on ESPN+<\/a>).<\/p>\n To checkout the latest and greatest UFC 321: \u201cAspinall vs. Gane\u201d news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDrago\u201d is ready to show off his entire skillset. On paper, Volkov vs. Almeida is a classic striker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[139414,64,63,786,40762,785,139415,85,138947,1396,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-231285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-aspinall-vs-gane-start-time","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-preview-and-live-results","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc-321-fight-card","17":"tag-ufc-news","18":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}