Was Volkanovski Ever Any Good????

[Cobra 03]

Everyone loses eventually unless you retire like Khabib or cherry pick fights and use steroids like jones

Jones cherry picks. LOL I guess you must not have watched when he cleaned out the LHW division, at a time when that division was arguably the best in MMA. That's OK, lots of people don't study history!

 

[BROWNPRIDE]

Stop it bro. Volk is and will always be the man!

 

[ipowerslapmywife]

Jones cherry picks. LOL I guess you must not have watched when he cleaned out the LHW division, at a time when that division was arguably the best in MMA. That's OK, lots of people don't study history!

Yeah against old small washed up pride legends that were middleweights and used steroids to do it. Anytime he faced a guy his size he struggled even though they weren’t that good, Gus, Reyes, OSP, Bonnar. Even tiny middleweight Santos with an injured leg should’ve beaten him.

He ducked 2 guys he knew would have knocked him out, Rumble and Francis. It’s no coincidence he ducked those 2 guys that happened to have scary power and be his biggest threats then avoided the Gus rematch like the plague and fought him when he was washed.

Now he fought a guy with zero wrestling in gane and wants to fight 50 yr old Stipe while avoiding actual challenges

Let me add that he eyepokes every opponent when the fight gets competitive and used to throw oblique kicks to the knees of old worn high mileage middleweights

 

[tramendous]

Stop it bro. Volk is and will always be the man!

He wouldve been if he beat a bunch of elite fighters.

 

[Psychojoe86]

It’s actually kinda crazy that khabib got the benefit of the doubt from so many favs. So many epic fighters are getting starched short of glory.

Volk had an epic run… but it’s still debatable if he or Aldo is goat featherweight ever. Crazy sport

 

[Paladin]

Seriously though. First time he runs into any power hes out cold and first time he fought someone thats actually elite like Islam he folded. Super overrated. This was basically guaranteed.

Whoa.. I missed this card ? What??

 

[sdpdude9]

Are you kidding? He just lost, obviously not good. Who did he beat? Oh yeah, bunch of guys that also lost fights. Topuria the goat though, he did win recently.

 

[tramendous]

Whoa.. I missed this card ? What??

Volk ran into a elite fighter other than Islam and promptly got put to sleep and sent to the shadow realm. Turns out hes only capable of beating journeymen or past their prime guys.

 

[Davidjacksonjones]

Theres at least one person thinking about it

Was Volkanovskin Ever Any Good????

Seriously though. First time he runs into any power hes out cold and first time he fought someone thats actually elite like Islam he folded. Super overrated. This was basically guaranteed.

forums.sherdog.com

 

[JustBreed]

Yeah against old small washed up pride legends that were middleweights and used steroids to do it. Anytime he faced a guy his size he struggled even though they weren’t that good, Gus, Reyes, OSP, Bonnar. Even tiny middleweight Santos with an injured shoulder should’ve beaten him.

He ducked 2 guys he knew would have knocked him out, Rumble and Francis. It’s no coincidence he ducked those 2 guys that happened to have scary power and be his biggest threats then avoided the Gus rematch like the plague and fought him when he was washed

Everyone was only considered washed once Jones flogged them.

Anyone who gave him a competitive fight he fought again and smashed, except for Reyes who never got himself back to a rematch.

 

[Conor Strickland]

Sometimes the truth is less believable than the delusion it exposes. Topuria may have been the one to land the punch but this thread was needed to break mass psychosis sherdog had volkanovski.

I need to get a hold of your drug dealer bro... That be some good stuff you be smoking for real lol

 

[ipowerslapmywife]

Everyone was only considered washed once Jones flogged them.

Anyone who gave him a competitive fight he fought again and smashed, except for Reyes who never got himself back to a rematch.

They were all washed old pride middleweights. He was juiced to the gills doing it. Like I said everytime he fought guys his size actual light heavyweights he struggled or should’ve lost, Reyes, Gus, OSP and Bonnar, all those guys weren’t even good fighters as time has shown and he struggled against them. 90% of the guys he beat were originally middleweights or eventually dropped down to middleweight.

He waited to have a Gus rematch years later when he was washed. He should have 3 losses on his record right now, Gus, Reyes and Santos.

The only guy he faced with legit KO power is a washed shot knees rampage

 

[AfroBanana]

-Mendes was 1-2 last 3 when they fought and was already exposed by conor. Conor always quits from getting punched hard but he ate mendes' best punches.
-Aldo was wornout
-Zombie is a pushover. Lets be serious.
-Yair is easy to beat. Anybody that throws themself at him has a 50/50 chance of taking him down and winning let alone a top fighter. Past his prime Edgar proved this years ago and volk just copied his blueprint.

-Volk was coming off an injury and having a kid that lead to inactivity, took a rematch on short notice (one where he shocked everyone the fight oeior and had a good showing) was KO’ed, everyone thought he took this fight too soon, was getting old etc.

See it works both ways. Only an idiot would make such simplistic conclusions. The dude is arguably the best FW to do it and was a P4P #1 guy. I thought he lost the second fight with Max tbh and you can’t undo his success with your smooth brain logic.

 

[tramendous]

I need to get a hold of your drug dealer bro... That be some good stuff you be smoking for real lol

Sleep on it, look into it. Like a truth seed in your mind, it will grow if you let it. Like inception. You dont even have to thank me.

 

[Wonderfight]

One of the best fighters ever without the question, anything else is a cope by the haters. Almost impossible to do and try more in the same span of time with that much success.

 

[tramendous]

-Volk was coming off an injury and having a kid that lead to inactivity, took a rematch on short notice (one where he shocked everyone the fight oeior and had a good showing) was KO’ed, everyone thought he took this fight too soon, was getting old etc.

See it works both ways. Only an idiot would make such simplistic conclusions. The dude is arguably the best FW to do it and was a P4P #1 guy. I thought he lost the second fight with Max tbh and you can’t undo his success with your smooth brain logic.

Short notice? Lets not make fun of the guy's height. He took that because he knew it was his best chance otherwise Islam having a full camp to prepare for volk wouldve been way worse for Volk.

 

[Fergelmince]

...is what no one is thinking.


That being said, RIP Volk era.
Greatest Feather of All-Time (some may disagree) lost to most skilled FW ever.
Skill level keeps increasing over time, as Joe Rogan said tonight.
And GSP has agreed with this statement many times.

Topuria reign begins....

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Volk's 61.5% finish rate (16 finishes out of 26 wins)
vs
Ilia's 86.6% finish rate (13 finishes out of 15 wins)
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Featherweight division will become more exciting.

You're a few minutes too late to the game sherbro

Was Volkanovskin Ever Any Good????

Seriously though. First time he runs into any power hes out cold and first time he fought someone thats actually elite like Islam he folded. Super overrated. This was basically guaranteed.

forums.sherdog.com

 

[xhaydenx]

When he was strutting around the octagon after finishing short notice bum Zombie of all people and shouting "I'm the Goat" I was embarrassed to be a fellow bald, manlet, half aussie Wog.

 

[Wonderfight]

Volk had all the tools to beat him, it just didn’t happen. Age surely had something to do with it, there is no one alive who will be better with 36 than with 30. Also Ilia is a great fighter. Even with that, Volk showed that he can definitely win this in that first round. Sh*t happens.

 

[JustBreed]

They were all washed old pride middleweights. He was juiced to the gills doing it. Like I said everytime he fought guys his size actual light heavyweights he struggled or should’ve lost, Reyes, Gus, OSP and Bonnar, all those guys weren’t even good fighters as time has shown and he struggled against them.

He waited to have a Gus rematch years later when he was washed.

Reyes and Gus were competitive, but Jones still won. At best there was a good argument for both of those guys winning, but they still struggled with Jones as much as he struggled with them for the fights to have been that close.

Was Gus really that washed? He beat the absolute piss out of Glover who ended up winning the belt the fact that the belts been so slipper since Jones left demonstrates how evenly matched everyone else in that division is.

I actually don't remember the OSP fight that well, I kinda just remember Jones cruising and not doing much.

I actually don't remember the Bonnar fight at all for some reason.

He beat DC twice, who was the man at LHW if not for Jones, and arguably one of the GOAY HWs.

The guys a reprehensible human, but I don't know what else he could've done to prove himself (other than not get caught doping, big Astrix there)