Brian Ortega got to see Alexander Volkanovski at the top of his game.
Ortega dropped a five-round verdict to Volkanovski in their featherweight title tilt at UFC 266 in September 2021. While Ortega absorbed more than 200 significant strikes in that bout, he also placed Volkanovski in serious peril with with submission attempts in the third and fourth frames. Neither was successful, which allowed Volkanovski to take a clear victory on the scorecards.
“To me, it didn’t seem like it was the same Volk. Seeing him and being in front of him it was like, ‘Man you’re moving different.’ But obviously, he adjusts for every opponent for he has. So who knows? But I am curious to see what happens in the featherweight division.” “The rebirth is a nature process that the eagle goes through. It’s something that felt very close to heart for me. It’s some difficult changes that I had to make in my personal life to be able to really live the rest of my life the right way,” Ortega said. “For those who don’t know, the eagle lives for 70 years. At the 40-year mark, the eagle loses the sharpness of its beak, the feathers aren’t as good and its talons are weak.
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