This is silly, this concept of "afraid" meaning afraid of what? Getting beaten up? No, fighters try to mitigate the potential of loss and the potential vs Movsar is far greater than that vs Ortega and even asking for Yair who's on a 2 loss skid? It's obvious. I don't think any 145er is literally scared of getting beaten up by another one, but I think guys do consciously avoid tougher matchups and pursue easier ones and that's what this sounds like to me, ducking. I also don't think a win over Evloev or Ortega makes much of a difference, either likely puts Aljo right in the title picture but the likelihood of beating Evloev is way lower, it's a much harder fight and Aljo knows that.