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Only days removed from conquering his first trip to Japan, A.J. McKee’s immediate future appears to be a title bout against either Bellator featherweight champion Patrício “Pitbull” Freire or lightweight champ Usman Nurmagomedov. But if McKee had it his way, his next bout would be another cross-promotional affair, this time against the consensus top pound-for-pound fighter in the world in the UFC’s Alexander Volkanovski.
“I would destroy Volk,” says McKee. “Volk beat a GOAT, he beat [Max] Holloway. I know I’m the best in the world, and that’s the biggest statement I could make. I could prove that the best fighters in the world aren’t all in the UFC.”
