“Go back to this time last year when Alex Pereira had just knocked out Magomed Ankalaev. He's only had one fight since then, and it was when he was going for greatness against Ciryl Gane at the White House.
Now that he's lost, it feels like all this goodwill is gone.
I bet if you went back and looked at the way the fans felt about Volkanovski after getting knocked out by Ilia Topuria in February 2024, he didn't have the same goodwill he's got right now. I feel certain of that.”
@ConnerBurks on how quickly the narrative around a fighter can change in MMA.
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