Alexander Volkanovski is waiting on confirmation for his next UFC featherweight title defense and has his sights set on undefeated No. 1 contender Movsar Evloev.
Volkanovski is coming off a unanimous decision win over Diego Lopes at UFC 325 in February, which marked the first defense of his second featherweight title reign. He is targeting a return around August or September, with UFC 330 on Aug. 15 in Philadelphia still without an announced main event.
“Obviously, I want something announced,” Volkanovski said, before clarifying, “Not even announced, I want something definitely locked in as well, but you’ve got to understand that they’ve got a schedule that they need to keep with a lot of other champions, a lot of people fighting, a lot of big events with this one and obviously Conor [McGregor] fighting [in July], so I guess that maybe once they get this out of the way maybe they can start putting a lot of energy everywhere else.”
“But yeah, I was obviously looking for anywhere from August, September, but we’ll see. I know September’s been brung up a lot with everyone, there were dates that looked good, but whatever works, we’ll see,” he added.
“At the same time, Movsar’s obviously the most deserving, No. 1 contender. He’s been the No. 1 contender for a while and everyone knows me as champion I want to fight the No. 1 guys, the guys that deserve it, and that’s obviously Movsar. So that’s something I’m pushing for, I’m pretty sure that’s what the UFC wants anyway, so that’s probably exactly what’s going to happen.”
