If the hour yr has been any indication, Alexander Volkov seems eager for another run at an elusive heavyweight identify shot. 

Volkov (37-10) scored his 3rd consecutive stoppage win on Saturday in Sydney, Australia, through filing fan favourite Tai Tuivasa on house park in Spherical 2 in their UFC 293 co-main tournament.

The 34-year-old local of Russia advanced to 11-4 since making his Octagon debut in 2016 through depending on his 6-foot-7 body to land obese proper hand counter pictures during that bloodied and wore ailing the brawling taste of Tuivasa (14-6). 

Out of doors of a gentle current of calf kicks that left Volkov’s supremacy left leg discolored, Tuivasa used to be in large part useless hour struggling his 3rd instantly defeat, all 3 through stoppage, following a 10-month layoff.

“I didn’t expect him [to be] so tough,” Volkov stated. “I hit him with so many punches and he was still on his legs throwing low kicks. He was so tough.”

Tuivasa, 30, used to be not able to tied blank along with his tough proper hand as Volkov jumbled together frame kicks and a obese jab to retain him at area. Volkov dropped Tuivasa two times in Spherical 1 and landed a flurry of fresh punches to harm him sooner than the bell. 

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In spite of pleas from Tuivasa’s nook sooner than Spherical 2 about how related his crew felt he used to be to compromising Volkov’s leg, the previous Bellator heavyweight champion stayed on his ft during Spherical 2 till he dropped Tuivasa and took over govern place at the garden.

Volkov briefly moved to complete mount and systematically weakened Tuivasa with elbows and hammer fists till he join an Ezekial choke to build a faucet at 4:37 of the second one spherical.

The submission win used to be Volkov’s first 2016 sooner than his UFC debut.