Ankalaev says Ulberg will taste defeat if UFC gives him to me

Magomed Ankalaev, the existent UFC airy heavyweight champion, is already readying caller challenges, adjacent though helium volition support his rubric against the ever-dangerous Alex Pereira connected Saturday night. Whether that volition bring him occupation oregon adjacent greater glory remains to beryllium seen.

This Saturday, helium volition support his rubric for the 2nd clip successful a row, but helium has already made it wide who helium would similar to spot arsenic his adjacent opponent. The names of Jiri Prochazka and Khalil Rountree, who are besides competing astatine UFC 320 and could determine the adjacent challenger, are of nary involvement to him astatine all. Ankalaev is focused solely connected Carlos Ulberg.

“You know, those guys who are warring astatine the aforesaid event, Rountree and Prochazka, I don’t attraction astatine each anymore. They are yesterday’s news. They person already been punished by the erstwhile champion, the feline I’m warring now, the feline I’ve already beaten,” Ankalaev told MMA Fighting done an interpreter.

Ulberg brutally knocked retired Dominick Reyes past week successful Perth and recorded his ninth consecutive victory, which caught Ankalaev's attention.

"This caller guy, Ulberg, you're talking about... He's interesting. He's connected a winning streak, he's been undefeated for a while. If the UFC wants to halt him, they'll springiness him me. And past he'll yet cognize what decision means," said the Russian champion.

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Undefeated successful his past 13 appearances, Ankalaev doesn't hesitate to deed backmost connected societal media, wherever helium publically calls retired Prochazka and Rountree. Ulberg, connected the different hand, has made nary concealed of his tendency for Ankalaev, hoping that the Russian volition decision Pereira erstwhile again successful bid to get his crook for the belt.

Ankalaev emphasizes that specified an enactment suits him, but emphasizes that helium is archetypal and foremost an "employee" of the company.

"If they privation to marque him a star, if they privation to propulsion him guardant and physique him arsenic a large sanction successful the UFC, they tin bash that. But sooner oregon aboriginal they'll person to measurement into the octagon with me, and that volition astir apt mean the extremity of his rise. But I'll accidental it again; I don't take opponents. Whatever the UFC decides, we'll bash it. We'll spot what happens," the champion concluded.