McGregor rips Aussie UFC champ after huge news

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Alex Volkanovski has continued his slanging lucifer with Conor McGregor aft securing a monolithic showdown against caller lightweight champ Islam Makhachev next February astatine UFC 284.

Volkanovski was booked arsenic the back-up combatant for Makhachev's lightweight rubric clash with Charles Oliveira, successful lawsuit determination were immoderate mishaps, each but securing his accidental astatine becoming treble champ.

After Makhachev's triumph successful Abu Dhabi, UFC brag Dana White confirmed Volkanovski would instrumentality connected the Dagestani combatant successful Perth successful 2023.

That sparked an onslaught by McGregor, questioning the amusement worth of the match-up.

McGregor posted a photograph of the duo and said the main paper combat would pull small attention.

"My 2 aged belts. On 2 small ticks. This combat does 10 buys," helium tweeted.

Volkanovski was speedy to deed backmost astatine the Irish erstwhile champion, referencing 1 of McGregor's erstwhile quotes.

"A erstwhile omniscient antheral erstwhile said," helium captioned a reply to a erstwhile McGregor tweet, which said "Winners absorption connected winning. Losers absorption connected winners".

Surprisingly, McGregor took the barbs successful a antithetic direction, saying helium was "happy" for Volkanovski, adding that helium would beryllium "back" and that "this is not over".

Volkanovski said helium would "welcome" McGregor backmost into the fold, earlier McGregor added: "I was successful your nonstop spot 1 clip don't forget. 145 coming up. Good luck.

"I'd accidental spell heavier. Rugby days. Be a bowling ball. That's however I'd bash it arsenic you. Your information close present arsenic I spot it, I don't know. But bowling shot benignant for you for champion chance."

Earlier successful the year, Volkanovski spoke of McGregor's bequest but was speedy to contend that helium has done much than the Irishman.

"You request [title] defences, that's the thing," Volkanovski said successful April.

"I'm going to springiness him respect. The dude tin fight. He made immoderate atrocious decisions and each that benignant of worldly but helium tin fight. To instrumentality retired Aldo successful Aldo's prime, that's saying thing arsenic well. Aldo is inactive showing he's inactive successful his prime, helium doesn't age.

"But again, I consciousness similar I've decidedly done a batch much than him truthful retired of each the champions, I'd accidental helium would person to beryllium astatine the bottommost of the list. He ain't gonna similar that but whatever."

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