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Evloev isn’t letting anyone jump the featherweight title queue
ahead of him.
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Evloev is riding a nine-fight winning streak in the
UFC with wins over the likes of Dan Ige,
Arnold
Allen, Diego Lopes
and Aljamain
Sterling. However, Evloev is still not the most obvious
contender at 145 pounds, which he thinks is due to lack of finishes
on his resume.
Meanwhile, the featherweight title picture changed drastically at
UFC
314 last weekend when Alexander
Volkanovski won the vacant title against Diego Lopes
in the main event. Evloev has no doubt that Volkanovski will agree
to fight him, which the champ has already admitted. However, the
undefeated Russian isn’t sure if the UFC wants the matchup.
Meanwhile, Yair
Rodriguez is calling for a title shot after foiling Patricio
Freire’s promotional debut at UFC 314. Previously unranked
Jean
Silva is also rallying for a gold bid after five straight
finishes in the UFC. While Evloev is unsure of his title shot, he
wants Rodriguez or Silva to at least go through him in order to
fight for the title.
“I believe if we ask Volkanovski, he will fight [me]. Because he is
real champ,” Evloev told MMAjunkie.com. “But we don’t know if UFC [wants] it…
The only thing they can talk [about] is just [that] I have no
finishes… If [Yair
Rodriguez] wants to fight for the title, you have to beat me
first and then you deserve it… Maybe they will give it to [Jean Silva].
But like I said, if you have [a] contender who deserves it more
than I, just let me test him.”