UFC: Alex Volkanovski ‘the complete fighter’ and is finally getting due credit, says coach George Hickman
- Hickman, one of Volkanovski’s long-time coaching team, thinks the UFC featherweight champ would make light work of Henry Cejudo
- ‘He can strike, he can brawl if he has to, he can take down, he can submit, he can ground and pound – he can do it all’
Henry Cejudo does not stand a chance of beating Alex Volkanovski “any time soon” according to George Hickman, one of the UFC featherweight champ’s long-time coaching team.
Volkanovski moved into the top two of the UFC’s pound-for-pound rankings with a dominant fourth-round TKO of “The Korean Zombie” Jung Chan-sung at UFC 273 last weekend.
The 33-year-old Australian (24-1) has now almost cleaned out his whole division, with no clear No 1 contender. But former flyweight and bantamweight champ Cejudo called him out on Sunday after re-entering the USADA testing pool, signalling he is ready to end his two-year retirement.
But Hickman – now head MMA coach at the new Bangtao Muay Thai & MMA gym in Phuket, Thailand – feels “Triple C” (16-2) would be on the losing side against “The Great”.
“I’m not really sure whether he [Cejudo] would get that fight or not,” American former featherweight Hickman (9-3) told the Post. “But MMA’s a crazy sport. Crazy things happen in the fight but also on the matchmaking and business side of things that you wouldn’t expect.