Alex Volkanovski plockade hem en riktig storvinst i sin förra match mot den forne mästaren Jose Aldo då de möttes på UFC 237.
“he couldn’t pull the trigger”
Volkanovski har nu vunnit sju matcher på rad, har inte förlorat på sex år och är enligt många den nästa självklara titelutmanaren. I en intervju på ”the mma hour” så berättade Volkanovski mer om matchen och pusselbitarna som ledde till den stora segern. Han berättade bland annat att han känner att Aldo hela tiden var tvungen att omjustera sig och att det bidrog till svårigheter för den forne mästaren.
“I knew a lot of people were saying going into that fight, ‘watch the leg kicks,’ ‘watch his counter,’ ‘he’s so explosive,’ and stuff like that. I knew that, but it’s easy to just say you’re gonna hit someone if I’m standing there, fair enough. But when I had him so worried about what I was doing, I just had him puzzled and you could see that. He was always adjusting, always trying to set himself up, and before he knew it he couldn’t pull the trigger.”
“He’s very, very over-reactive”
Volkanovski fortsatte med att förklara att han tyckte att Aldo reagerade väldigt kraftigt på de tekniker han utförde under matchens gång.
“I actually was trying to draw him into pulling the trigger, I think he noticed that so that’s why he wasn’t pulling the trigger at all. But at the same time, even with the clinch work and stuff like that, if I shot in and he stuffed the takedown, I was going to come right back in. That was just another thing for him to worry about. It was just to have a puzzle in front of him, have him so worried about things that I’m doing. He’s very, very over-reactive, he reacts heavily to everything.”
