Alexander “The Great” Volkanovski is accusing the UFC’s commentary team of bias. He was particularly galled by the commentary during his second fight against Max Holloway, and accused the American commentary team of writing him off simply for being Australian.
Volkanovski made this accusation during a recent interview with ESPN MMA. “Mate, let me tell ya. I don’t wanna bring it up, but we were just watching that [Volkanovski vs. Holloway 2 at UFC 251], cause we obviously talk about the bias going into even the Ortega match… but there was a bit of a bias.
Volkanovski Accuses UFC Commentators of Bias
Damn, it is hard to watch that second Max fight with how bad they [Jon Anik & Michael Bisping] were. Like, I need to say something to these guys ‘cos that is pretty bad… We just watched that and we were just laughing, I was like, ‘Are they serious or what?’ It was pretty incredible.
Not that it wasn’t close, obviously it was close, but I mean, these guys don’t help my situation one bit. You know, it was pretty embarrassing on their behalf.They sort of tried to do that again, I feel, to Ortega. It’s like Americans against the Aussies.”
Why exactly Michael Bisping, an Englishman from Manchester, would favor American fighters over Australian ones is unclear. Volkanovski continued, referencing Herb Dean’s controversial choice to allow Brian Ortega to continue fighting against Volkanovski despite being visibly dazed.
“Whether they didn’t like it and they’re against me because they want that belt in America, I don’t know what it is. I feel like there was still a bias even when you got the doctors and the refs going above and beyond to give a favor to my opponent. t’s not fair, obviously.
He [Ortega] was done. He couldn’t get up. I think he thought the fight was over, he thought that the ref stopped it. He was laying down because he was that thrashed.
You’re not allowed to get lifted off the stool, and lifted to the stool, which was already showing you that it was a TKO. The fact that he was wobbling and answering questions wrong, it obviously should have been stopped, even if Herb Dean is saying now that it wasn’t that he was that rocked, he was just tired.
He made it public that he thought Ortega was more tired and that’s what it was. So he pretty much just admitted that he wanted to give him a minute rest, which is just like, mate, we talk about a bias against me, it’s pretty clear. I don’t wanna throw shade but, at the end of the day, it looks like there’s certain people in the system against me.
It ain’t gonna stop me.” Alexander Volkanovski has not lost a fight since 2013, has never lost in the UFC, and is on a ten-fight UFC win streak including notable victories over Max Holloway, Jose Aldo, and now Brian Ortega.
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