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UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski doesn’t want to focus on his former training sessions with Movsar Evloev.

In the main event of UFC 333, Alexander Volkanovski will once again defend his UFC featherweight championship. This time around, he will be going up against Movsar Evloev – and while he may not be the biggest fan favorite, nobody has been able to defeat him up to this point in his career.

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Alexander Volkanovski has taken on some absolutely mammoth challenges thus far in mixed martial arts, including against the likes of Islam Makhachev and Ilia Topuria, so this won’t exactly be a fight that scares him.

Plus, as it turns out, Alexander Volkanovski and Evloev have trained together in the past, with the Australian having the following to say about those sessions.

Alexander Volkanovski reflects on training with Evloev

“I do remember us training, it was a long time ago,” Volkanovski said. “You can’t go off training sessions then. As he said, he would have been young. All I worry about is how he’s been looking in his last few performances.

“I think I know a few of the people he knows as well, so there’s no ill feeling toward each other, he’s a good dude, I’ve got a lot of respect for him, but come Oct. 24, we’re going to go handle business and I plan on showing him that I’m the man.”

Quotes via MMA Fighting

For both men, it’s all about focusing on UFC 333, in what has the potential to be one of the most intriguing chess matches of the year in mixed martial arts.

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