MMAFighting<\/a>, Volkov admitted that he feels Pereira would be an easier fight for him than a rematch with Gane if main heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall isn\u2019t ready to return in a timely manner. He thinks that Pereira will realize that heavyweight is a different animal.<\/p>\n\u201cFor me, how I see this, I don\u2019t want to disrespect anybody,\u201d Volkov said. \u201cFighting with Alex Pereira will be more easy for me, but more big fight if he won. \u2026 I don\u2019t know [how he will perform at heavyweight]. If his body is not genetic unique, it should be hard for him. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s true or not, but we see his pictures. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe has a lot of water in his body. It always makes cardio much worse, and punches and everything. And heavyweight is more heavy so you will spend much more energy than you spend in either light heavyweight or middleweight. It\u2019s little bit different feeling. I truly believe that heavyweight and any other division is like two different types of sports. We need different abilities to fight in heavyweights in the lower division.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volkov has a bout scheduled for Saturday\u2019s UFC 328 event in Newark. He will be taking on Waldo Cortes-Acosta, who is riding a three-fight winning streak. Volkov would stay in the title mix if he can halt the momentum of another surging heavyweight.<\/p>\n
Do you agree with Alexander Volkov\u2019s take on Alex Pereira potentially encountering problems at heavyweight? Share your opinion below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkov believes Alex Pereira might be walking into a trap with his heavyweight debut. Volkov is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-651757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651757","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=651757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}