Lerone Murphy has shared his candid thoughts on how he felt when he found out he won’t be fighting UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski next, as Volkanovski will be back at it with Diego Lopes.
‘The Great’ will make his first defense of the 145-pound championship of his second reign at UFC 325 vs. Lopes.
Volkanovski and Lopes fought for the vacant title earlier this year UFC314and the Australian cruised to a unanimous decision win to become a two-time UFC featherweight champion. He was expected to face Movsar Evloev or Lerone Murphy next. However, to everyone’s surprise, the UFC announced the rematch with Lopes.
Murphy, the No. 4 ranked featherweight contender, considered himself next in line to challenge “The Great,” especially after knocking out Aaron Pico in Round 1 at UFC 319. However, he admitted that after UFC 325 was announced, he “fell out of love” with the sport for a while. During an interview with Ariel Helwani, ‘The Miracle’ said:
“When I first found out… I fell out of love with it for a while, I’m not going to lie. I got into MMA through boxing because I thought there was no politics. I thought it was just, do the work, the best fights the best, and that’s how it goes. That’s what hurt me the most. I have to get over it – it is what it is, it’s a business. Just keep fighting, keep doing what you do, keep winning, and eventually we’ll get there. I think it’s inevitable is that it’s going to happen, and you know I’m going to be a champion.”
Check out Lerone Murphy’s comments below:
Lerone Murphy claps back at Diego Lopes
Lerone Murphy has responded to Diego Lopes’ post on X, in which the Brazilian asked other featherweight contenders ‘Go to work and stop whining.During the same interview posted above, the Brit stated that he has won nine fights in a row and faced everyone the UFC put in front of him, including the deadly Aaron Pico on short notice, whom he knocked out in three minutes and 21 seconds. In response to Lopes’ comments, ‘The Miracle’ joked:
“You can’t tell me to go to work. I’ve won nine fights in a row, so no one can tell me to go to work. I fought whoever the UFC gave me. In my opinion, I did the UFC a favor by taking the Pico fight on three weeks’ notice. He’s a dangerous guy. I definitely believe he’s in the top five in the division… and I went out and knocked him out.”
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