Undisputed featherweight champion, Alexander Volkanovski has shut down a long-rumored fight between him and Aljamain Sterling, after the Uniondale native suffered a bantamweight title fight loss to Sean O’Malley over the weekend at UFC 292.
Volkanovski, the current undisputed featherweight champion and joint pound-for-pound number one alongside incumbent heavyweight best, Jon Jones, has been sidelined since he successfully unified the featherweight titles in a TKO win over interim gold holder, Yair Rodríguez at UFC 290 back in July during International Fight Week.
And yet to book a return to the Octagon, the New South Wales tactician had been linked with a title defense against the surging Georgian contender, Ilia Topuria, however, also welcomed a title defense against the above-mentioned, Sterling in the future.