LAS VEGAS – Alexander Volkov is pleased with his victory, even if it took a little longer than he expected.
At UFC Fight Night 221, Volkov (36-10 MMA, 10-4 UFC) finished opponent Alexandr Romanov (16-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC) with punches 2:16 into Round 1. Even though 136 seconds inside the cage wouldn’t seem very long in the eyes of many, Volkov told reporters including MMA Junkie after the bout he expected the fight to be quicker.
“You always feel good after the victory, so I feel great that I won,” Volkov said through an interpreter at the post-fight news conference. “Really what I’d like to say is everything that we’ve worked on in the camp. Everything we’ve put so much time into, I really feel that it’s great that it happened the way that it happened. Exactly what we expected him to do, he did in the fight. This is what we worked on.
