MMAjunkie.com<\/a>, Volkanovski denied that he has been offered a fight against Cejudo. The champ says that he isn’t particularly interested in fighting Cejudo over the other top 145lbs contenders, though he would take the fight if the UFC wanted it.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s funny, I have a laugh about it, but I don\u2019t know how people are taking it, if they really think that I\u2019m not signing some contract that supposedly I\u2019m meant to sign. No one has talked to me about this at all, except Cejudo. I just keep seeing him begging, absolutely begging Dana White to give him a shot,” Volkanovski said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the cringe, what are you going to do? If it was going to ever happen, it had to be before. Now, look at the division. We got all these guys that are fighting for the No. 1 contender (spot),” continued Volkanovski.<\/p>\n
“For me to take a fight later this year with Cejudo, it just does not make sense. Again, I want the No. 1 contenders, but if the UFC just really did push that on me, alright fine. I\u2019ll whoop his ass then I can take on a No. 1 contender. But again, that\u2019s not me. I want to be the type of champion that takes on No. 1 contenders.”<\/p>\n
Do you hope to see Alexander Volkanovski fight Henry Cejudo?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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