Only Jon Jones and Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman are better pound-for-pound fighters in the UFC, according to the official rankings, than Australian combatant Alexander Volkanovski.
The Featherweight champ is rated above the premier MMA promotion’s Middleweight, Light Heavyweight, and Heavyweight titleholders. It’s a metric you should always take with a pinch of salt, because we won’t see guys of different sizes take each other on very often, but this is still a huge compliment.
Volkanovski doesn’t seem to enjoy the same high-profile place in the sport outside of Down Under as those cage fighters competing in heavier weight categories.