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Volkan Oezdemir: ”Bara en tidsfråga innan jag blir mästare”

Det var under helgens UFC 220 som Volkan Oezdemir (15-2) utmanade Daniel Cormier (20-1) om UFC:s lätt-tungviktsbälte, dock förlorade han via TKO i andra ronden. Förlusten innebär dock inte att Oezdemir överger drömmarna om att bli mästare i UFC. Under presskonferenserna efter matchen pratade Oezdemir om hur han ser på framtiden.

I will be champion, that’s for sure. I will be champion. It’s just a matter of time. Definitely, tonight wasn’t my night. Cormier is definitely one of the best light heavyweights that ever existed. He’s ranked in the pound-for-pound division.It’s already a great honor for me to fight this guy so early in my career. But I have so many more years in front of me, and I’m really going to make the best out of it.

Han pratade även om hur han ser på sin motståndare efter matchen.

(Cormier) just talked to me a little bit, and we exchanged some words. He’s really cool, and definitely it’s a lot of hype, definitely, before the fight. Just talks. It was fun, definitely. I enjoy all the process. I just love the fight game, at the end of the day. It’s something you start to really – you feel a lot of love for this sport and all the different aspects. So there is the outside of the cage, inside of the cage, all of that is a blessing. Because all fight week was amazing. I got all my friends coming here. I got all my team. It was a good moment. I shared a lot of moments with a lot of people.

Oezdemir berättar även att han förvånades av sin egen insats under matchen.

I think I surprised myself, because I know I have a good position in the close range like that. So I felt good. I felt really good. Upper body work, greco and stuff – I worked a lot on that. So, definitely, it was a good momentum for me. But then I got caught on the floor once and maybe the second time. And then I got stuck, so I don’t really know. But I surprised myself. I realized that I really progressed in my wrestling. I took definitely a lot of commitment into my wrestling training and improving on my defense and my offense and everything. So I’m also happy with what I did do in that fight. I mark really easily on my face, and I get red super easily, but I wasn’t really rocked. But definitely I (would have taken) a lot of damage, so the referee stopped the fight.

Innan förlusten var Oezdemir inne på en 5 matchers vinstsvit varav tre av dessa var via knockout.

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