The UFC 314 fight card on Saturday at Kaseya Center in Miami, Fla. was headlined by a featherweight title fight between former champion Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes.
The fight went the distance with Volkanovski regaining the championship and becoming a two-time UFC titleholder. “The Great’ may have done it with a broken hand according to coach, Joe Lopez.
“He might have broke his hand. We’ve still got to get that X-rayed. So he did hurt his hand,” Lopez told Submission Radio. “It was early in the fight, I think. You know it. You know, Alex didn’t say anything towards. It was just at the end. He was just saying, ‘look, I think I busted my hand.’ I can’t remember which round. But yeah, he’s got a bit of a sore foot and, yeah, just the bumps and bruises after having a war, you know, a five round war with the warrior, you know?”
Volkanovski entered the title bout on Saturday coming off back-to-back losses for the first time in his career. Defeating Lopes and regaining the featherweight title, Lopez believes Volkanovski has proven his ‘one of the GOATs of the featherweight division.’
“It was it was pretty special because everyone was writing Volk off after his losses, and we knew Volk wasn’t ready to finish. It was just unfortunate, you know, with the Islam and then the Ilia fight. But you know, everybody, if you know Volk, you know and you’re close to him, you know that he’s a lot better than what he did in those last the two losses that he had,” Lopez said.
“It was just good that he could prove to everyone else in the world that you know who he is and how good he actually is. You know, he’s he’s got to be cemented there as one of the goats of the featherweights now forever.”
