Jorge Masvidal believes the following featherweight champion has a reputation, and it’s Movsar Evloev.
Evloev is 19-0 in MMA and 9-0 in UFC, together with his most up-to-date win a unanimous choice win over former champ Aljamain Sterling. A document like that might get most fighters a title shot, however Evloev has been placed on the lengthy highway many wrestlers missing UFC finishes discover themselves on. As an alternative of combating 145 pound champ Alexander Volkanovski, he’s at present in talks to battle Aaron Pico in Abu Dhabi for July.
UFC brass will not be 100% bought on Evloev, however one individual that’s? Gymnasium teammate Jorge Masvidal, who sang the Russian’s praises to Pink Nook MMA.
“I do know Movsar a very long time, 4 years at American High Workforce,” Masvidal mentioned. “Me and Movsar practice quite a bit collectively. On the time, I’m like 185, 190 kilos and Movsar’s like 150, 160. So at first, we’re wrestling. I’m doing okay. However this man doesn’t cease. By the final minute, my head was gonna explode as a result of he simply doesn’t cease and he’s simply capturing, capturing, wrestling, wrestling, capturing. Doesn’t cease, all the time advancing place.”
“After I went with him I used to be like, ‘Man, he’s in a position to hold that tempo with me and I’m quite a bit greater and extra skilled than him? This man’s scary.’ And I’ve skilled with him quite a few occasions and I’ve additionally seen him practice with among the greatest within the fitness center. I’m telling you, this man’s gonna be champion at 145.”
“God gave him genetics, but in addition, this man works more durable than everyone else,” Masvidal concluded. “Each day he does conditioning after wrestling. Two hours and a half of wrestling, then he’ll go roll, he’ll go run, he’ll go raise weights. This makes an enormous distinction.”
Evloev is just like Merab Dvalishvili in that he makes use of his cardio as a weapon to drown his opponents. However does the UFC need one other champion grinding their extra bankable strikers into the canvas for 25 minutes? In the event that they did, they wouldn’t be placing as a lot effort scraping the underside of the featherweight barrel for non-Evloev title battle choices.
