Volkan Oezdemir has earned a total of three wins under the UFC banner and is🉐 considered a top contender to the UFC Light Heavyweight Title.
UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones was recently notified by ♔USADA for a failed drꦺug test and now Oezdemir says that t♌he USADA offender has blown all of his opportunities.
“I thought about it, and I didn’t want to believe it,” Oezdemir said to . “I’m disappointed, first of all. He’s been the best in the division for a while — and one of the best pound-for-pound mixed martial artists, too. [Jones testing positive] is something that is hard to believe. And when you see that, you want to reconsider everything he did in the past. It’s pretty crazy, actually. I don’t know. He had so many opportunities, and he blew them off all the time. Stuff like that happened when he was supposed to fight ‘DC’ last year; he got caught with PEDs . You start thinking about if he was like that all his career or not. I know he’s a champion, and he came here and beat everybody else with talent. But of course, you start asking yourself that question.”
Oezdemir currently sits at #3 in the UFC rankingsꦕ, with formꦅer champion Daniel Cormier and Alexander Gustafsson ranked ahead of him.
Speaking o♏f Gustafsson and DC, the number three ranked fighter💮 wouldn’t mind battling either of them next.
“I called out Gustafsson right after my fight, and he didn’t even respond. I started looking at Cormier as a possibility, because he’s still the No. 1 challenger in the division,” Oezdemir said. “The 205-pound division is kind of stuck; everybody has a fight in the top 10, or even the top 12, I guess. So right now, DC is a good option, and I think he can even do it with the belt on.”
The top ranked light heavyweight last competed at UFC 214, where he scored 🍸a stunning knockout victory over🌞 Jimi Manuwa.
