In an interview recently put out on Daniel Cormier’s Youtube Channel where he was the host to guests to Alexander Volkanovski, featherweight champion and Islam Makhachev the lightweight champion, Makhachev started off the interview taking jabs at Alex’s height.
The two are scheduled to meet February 11th, 2023 in Perth Australia for UFC 284 as the main event where Alex is going to contest for Islam’s lightweight belt.
Makhachev who has constantly taking digs at Volkanovski’s height, directly on the night Makhachev won the belt beating Charles Oliveira, he called out Volkanovski saying, “Where is this short guy?”.
Not holding back in their first “face-to-face” interview (over zoom), right off the bat Islam states that Alex, who is 5’6 needs to wear “big shoes”, and that he should have learned from Adesanya who moved up in weight to fight Jan Blachowicz and lost back in March of 2021.
Volk who insisted that they will be the same size on the ground if it goes to the ground which he doesn’t mind against Islam, the heavy sambo wrestler.
Makhachev added that he wanted to knockout Volkanovski out which in return Volkanovski laughed replying, “we all know you wanna take me down”.
What do you think, will Makhachev stand and strike with Volkanovski?
Catch the full interview below.
