Russian mixed style fighter Alexander Shlemenko spoke out about defeat of Alexandr Volkov in a duel with Tom Aspinall at UFC Fight Night 204 in London.
The former Bellator champion agrees with the widespread opinion that the career of the Russian heavyweight has now been put to rest.
“He didn’t show anything at all, it’s a pity for him. I thought he would now take the Englishman away, at the weigh-in he was so confident. Maybe for the first time in their lives, the audience was so opposed to Sasha. Maybe it somehow knocked him down, broke him, because I don’t remember that he had such fights in his career, when there was such a hard buzz. He also accelerates for a long time, the opponent took advantage of this. Before Sasha had time to accelerate, Aspinall outsmarted him in every aspect.
"Are you saying his career is over? This is true. I will now speak about him both harshly and not harshly. Sasha always rode underestimated. Most often, people underestimated him, they thought: well, what's wrong, a thin guy, tall, nothing special, now let's go out and break him. They broke, they broke - but he does not break. And now Sasha has recovered, began to smile, became self-confident. People began to prepare more for it. To return, you need to change something. Maybe the mood," Shlemenko said in an interview on Alexander Lyutikov's YouTube channel.