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Streaking featherweight contender Calvin Kattar has a message for UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski.<\/p>\n

Last night, in the main event of UFC on ESPN 13, Kattar picked up an impressive decision win over fellow contender Dan Ige. With the win, he built on the momentum of a thrilling knockout defeat of Jeremy Stephens, and further separated himself from a decision loss to red-hot contender Zabit Magomedsharipov.<\/p>\n

With two big wins behind him, Kattar is looking more and more like a future title challenger. He wants the division’s reigning champion, Volkanovski, to know that.<\/p>\n

Kattar sent a message to Volkanovski after his win over Ige.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean if I make my case, I don\u2019t got to do it with my mouth,\u201d Kattar said at the UFC on ESPN 13 post fight press conference (h\/t MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI do it in the cage. Like all these other guys, they all talk. Where I\u2019m from, we don\u2019t really talk about stuff too much. You go out and prove it. You earn it. In here, that\u2019s not really the business model, so it\u2019s a little bit of an adjustment for me. I go out, I fight, and I try to earn every opportunity in front of me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe champ should see that. He\u2019s saying he wants contenders. You\u2019re not going to find one more ready than myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Kattar suggests, Volkanovski has placed importance<\/a> on defending his title against the featherweight division’s top contenders, rather than chasing super fighters as other champions<\/a> have attempted to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy eyes are on my division,” Volkanovski said ahead of his UFC 251 win over Max Holloway. “I want to defend my belt against No. 1 contenders. We\u2019ve got a stacked division\u2026.You got all these guys fighting and whoever has an impressive performance is gonna be the No. 1 contender.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I\u2019ve said from Day 1, I don\u2019t want to put my division on hold. I want to fight No. 1 contenders. For me to be GOAT of this division, you need to take out No. 1 contenders.”<\/p>\n

Do you think we’ll see Calvin Kattar and Alexander Volkanovski fight in the future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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