He doesn't have long legs... that's not a joke. Considering how much he loves to kick, I know he would have been great with longer legs

@@ant2011nah, his short legs allow him to be possibly the worst human to have in your guard.

@@ant2011 in the yair fight volk's low kicks weren't connecting half of the time.. it looked very funny him trying to kick blank void.... wouldn't have mattered any way he was so much better in every other department i knew he had it

Same as Ilia just Ilia is less seasoned. Let's see what happens. Id say Ilia loses but it will be a battle.

@@stephenr80 I don't think its going to be a battle. Illia is pretty much straight up worse than Volk in every conceivable category, and he didn't look amazing versus Bryce or Emmett who both kind of suck ass. Volk basically said he doesn't want to talk about how bad Illia actually is, technically, because he wants the fight to sell.

John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The short emperor

Mighty Mouse actually

@@grahamhill676 Actually not

@kylerBD He's shorter and achieved a lot more. So yeah, probably more of a short king than Volk atm. Not to say Volk won't be THE king, but he isn't yet.

Its treason then, bruv

all the leon asthetic fans are screaming rn😭😭

It's true

I’d say Leon

I knew that was coming before I even clicked on the video lol

You are correct, your comment is underrated. There is no better source to approve facts than the actual individual answering in question, Alexander Volkanovski said it himself he's 5'5". Here is the proof from that podcast interview with Craig Jones... (3:04) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdOYbNJ00LzPhmg.html

@@GorgeousBabyBlueWaterthanks for the vid and time stamp homie 🙌🏻

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He is extremely short with a weird body… huge head, no neck, long arms, short stumpy legs and a big torso 🥴

and just as they inflate heights, they inflate the reach also. imo even more than heights. i don't care how wide shouldered or broad chested some fighters are, their reach is inflated just like their height.

That is not a good metric. Baseball have much more diversity.

​@@gonkong5638😂

​@@gonkong5638base ball is the most boring sport in the universe

@@AZZA5102Golf in the corner : 😳

to me personally the second Max fight was his most impressive performance, he lost the first two rounds and was getting dropped, and made adjustments and came back and won the last 3 rounds.

Yeah bro honestly what makes dude special is his ability to still add layers to his game bro when he fought Mendes he was a good striker but man once he fought TKZ his boxing was just on another level

It's not just that he listens to his corner, but he has an engaged dialogue with them. I think it was during the Makhachev fight where I really heard him for the first time, telling his coaches what he thought was happening, and them giving him insightful feedback. But he seemed like he was leading the discussion, even in the later rounds. The guy has a fight IQ that is off the charts.

@@mikedangerdoes his irt fight IQ is the highest UFC has ever seen,i believe. he does reads faster than every1 and can hold multiple things/calculations in his mind at once. he recognizes when the opponent reads him, and goes to a second then 3rd pattern. because his mind works faster, he faints about one per second (how u gonna respond? how u gonna respond to this?) and gives opponent cognitive exhaustion. they can barely make reads anymore, to fast, too complex, and they fall into confusion. ive seen him describe some of these things in different interviews. he is the first to ever win by cognitive exhaustion. i remember luke thomas saying "who the hell would have ever thought of doing that!".

Bruce Lee?

Hitler?

@@oddalfhutlur6760Hitler was average sized 5’9

5'7 isn't short.

@@DancyHercules3 5'7 is short bro it's below average height

Having reach and knowing how to use it aren’t the same. But definitely an advantage that he has taken “advantage” of No pun intended

it must feel wild because his reach is longer than other featherweights, but since he's also faster and has great timing, it must feel like he's hitting them from a place they can't hit him back

Everytime I watch Volkanovski fighting, I'm flabbergasted by how fricking long his arms are. When he's on guard, his arms cover all of his torso and also protects his face. My man is a Geodude

nggg a there are many with great reach, and clearly those people didnt make it. what the f does reach give you if you fight taller opponents anyway?

He got them orangutan arms

nah body matters a lot. that short neck is the difference between him getting submitted or not. thats a HUGE deal. having a chin is also another thing you cant really train. same with reach. theres a reason why tall lengthy guys are dominating and the one small guy has a insane reach so he doesnt count as short.

As well as Volk having no sleep after USADA woke him up. He had to take sleeping tablets to get back to sleep which he states still made him drowsy until half way through the fight.

This is the biggest factor, sure he does have some advantages being shorter with long arms and thick neck. But, his mindset on improving everyday and taking up new challenges with his immense discipline and work ethic, makes the REAL difference.

It’s knowing how to maximize your physical advantages while minimizing your weaknesses that’s the most important thing.

@@johnmarkson1998There’s really no way to design a study to confirm it explicitly but you can almost definitely work on your chin

No bro. His body doesn't make him great. He is just that great. With that dermination, focus, iq and understanding the fight game so well, it wouldn't matter what type of body he has. His size has strengths and weaknesses, but HE doesn't. Hes not the only one with that physique, but no one is just as good as him with it. Its credit to him. He'll work with what he has

He himself said his reach is inaccurate on the ufc profile. Many fighters have the wrong height and reach on their profiles. I believe he still has long arms for his height but you should not just believe what is written on the UFC fighter profiles.

​​@@johnconor5485His reach is around 70 I think

@@frenchonion4595that’s still fucking long 😭

You can be to long and tall , 6’4 is the max a fighter can be before it starts negatively effecting him

The term short king was made for Volk hahaha, the rest are just short

Cejudo is another short king

@@sam0095 With little T-Rex arms 😂

One on one competition is definitely more daunting, because you’re all alone in the cage. No teammates to blame when things go wrong. The strength I think is definitely legit though.

@@rico14 the position he played in rugby though, meant his job was to be the guy that went by himself into the line of defenders, so that self confidence probably translates well into mma

The decade of mma helps too. Rugby volk is long gone.

Rugby is very different to mma trust me 🤣 sure physically it defo helped him, but rugby is peanuts compared

@leopers9225 , he was playing Rugby at 214 lbs, thats the difference. That would be equal to fighting in Lightheavyweight MMA, Jones and DC's division. Volk cut weight to 145 lbs, thus he has the strength and durability that no 145 lbs fighter has, or even no 155 lbs fighters except for few like Khabib or Makhachev.

his wide frame adds to his reach lol you don't say.. that's literally how reach is measured, by width, fingertip to fingertip.

​@FistfulOfGabagool Reach fingertip to fingertip is not the same as the reach when throwing a punch. If his shoulders are wide with a long reach, he means his arms are not as long as people think. This mean that when he's in a stance, his "reach" doesn't exactly match-up to what people think. Combined with short legs, he has to do a lot more distance management than most people think. Not sure why you tried to counter this, if Volk said it himself then we have to believe it, cause who knows Volk more than Volk?

@@BRUCEYBOY you rotate your torso when you throw punches, you don't stand square. so that wide frame is a part of the length of your fully extended punch. watch the end position of a fully extended jab or a right cross and pay attention to the torso angle in relation to the extended arm. there's a reason they measure wingspan in boxing and not arm length.

@@FistfulOfGabagool you dont alway s rotate your torso. you ever did sparring? you know what fookin telegraphing a punch means??? Also muay thai fighters do stand square. they utilize leg kicks and check kicks

@@qefewfwdcwdc i trained and fought muay thai in thailand. the stance is relatively square but you still rotate into your punches. if you don't rotate you're just throwing fluff to set up kicks which is basically feinting. kicks score higher in muay thai plus the large gloves make punches not as effective especially considering most thai fighters are under 150lbs, they're not exactly power punchers.. anyway volk does not use a muay thai stance or style so even if you were right about muay thai(you're not) it would have nothing to do with volk.

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Exactly. He’s almost got a swimmers frame. Have a look at the Olympic swimmers. They’ve generally got this greater torso to legs ratio. Not only that but Volk has got the lats of a swimmer or surfer. Maybe he’s done a bit of surfing down on the south coast of NSW.

@@valueinvestor77 yeah because you instantly grow gigantic lats from surfing. Ever heard of genetics?

@@dersatansschuh4426 yeah you do grow massive lats from swimming and surfing. That’s actually a fact.

@@valueinvestor77 yeah I guess the world class MMA fighter grew his lats from surfing and not from strength training, makes sense buddeh

Then why does Michael Chandlers cardio suck

Or just a short torso in general, Jose Aldo was without debate the best striker on earth for years because his legs were so long in comparison to his height, and the shortness also made it easier to stuff takedowns, which is why Jose was known as the anti-wrestler

Well, PER POUND of bodyweight, it's not that surprising, actually. #EconomyClass

It varies by fighters. Volk isnt the only one with this body type, its actually really common in combat sports in general. Volk is just that good

Lol

Can't have the cake and eat it too.

im built with the same dimensions 😭😭

6ft is average or below average height

@@-Ice_Cold- only in a few parts of the world. Most of Asia, Latin America and the Middle East are under 6. Though the average global height is increasing.

​@@-Ice_Cold-6 ft is average in the Netherlands and among sime african tribes. The average height for a man in the rest if the world ranges from 5'8 to 5'10. Wtf are you people smoking?

All you have to do is become the number 1 pfp fighter in the world bro

@@saulspanco854 It's easy, with all the advantages. (joke)

He is probably the most loved ufc right now?

What are u wafffling about? He’s the most appreciated UFC current fighter, people are overall are shittin on jones as we speak by takin him over him.

And a tall fighters punches down at a angle so still the taller fighters reach shortens And as a shorter fighter you can duck but as a taller fighter you can't duck

it neutralizes the advantages of taller fighters like max/yair while also giving him all the advantages of being short and stocky(grapping, takedown/submission defense, lower center of mass, etc.) which the taller fighters lack. so he has the best of both worlds. he's like DC with a jon jones reach, it's tremendous.

@KereTista-km9ck yes

@KereTista-km9ck and taller fighters need to punch down so no they lose reach against shorter fighters

@KereTista-km9ck don't @ me if you have nothing of substance to say.

You aren't going to be champion of the world without physical advantages. So many people work hard and just have lesser talent. Not taking away anything from Volk, but you need hard work and physical advantages to be a (dominant) champion, for the most part. Look at Jon Jones, Volk, GSP (never had a reach disadvantage), and Izzy

of course he doesn't. you're one of the few people who realize this. he probably does have slightly longer reach than his height, but it's definitely not 71.5 inches...

You are being silly if you really think that. Height adds each. Generally, your kicks are longer the taller you are. For Volk, his reach helps him with body shot, but he still has to punch up, which shortens reach. A tall guy meanwhile can go low, punch and have more effective reach.

Bones IQ is overrated. Half of his wins are against middleweights and old dudes.

Jon jones

That's pretty cool that you train at AKA, make sure to enjoy your time with those guys.

who was really the best? islam or khabib?

Good point, but maybe it's also more difficult to squeeze something if you can't easily get around it, and thick stuff is harder to get around than thin stuff. Although admittedly your arms should always be long enough to get around people's necks, so I don't quite understand that part either. But maybe in thicker necks there's more room for the arteries to 'duck down', if you know what I mean, maybe it's harder to press them off *completely* cause there's more 'give' towards the neck centre, and so therefore there's still some blood/oxygen going to the brain, even if you're pressing onto them a little. So yes, you can get a squeeze, but not a 'complete squeeze', maybe... Dunno.

@@_munkykok_ I guess it depends on the people involved, both make sense, but that’s just what I’ve noticed in my experience.

@@supersaiyansalamence Fair point, I still need to test this.

@@supersaiyansalamence maybe if its a lot of muscle he can flex neck muscles and protect his artery a bit.

Volk avoided a lot of the kicking setups because of his stance switching, which was genius. I’ve never seen someone switch stances so frequently and fluidly in a fight before. It was wild

That physics is op if you know how to use it bro

@@zainalrawi no

It's not like if he didn't had this body type he wouldn't be as good, but it's not like it isn't a advantage

Thank you lol Volk's focus, drive, iq and overall knowledge of the fight game is what seperates him. Hes not the only fighter every with this build. Hes just that damn good! We're not gnna give glory to his parents DNA or god making him short, it belittles the work Volk put in. Its his mentality. Hes worked with what he got and perfects his craft it wouldnt matter what type of build he has with his brain

@@poporiporohe build itself has its strength and weaknesses. But Volk doesnt have weaknesses. Volk is not the only combat athlete with the build

@@swed8506 this 🙌😎

How long is it tho even if it was 69 or 70 it’s still long even for his height

HBO Boxing uses an " arm length" measurement taken from the armpit to the fist. That's the number that really matters and I wish the UFC would start doing it too.

Helped him with his style alot

I don't think being short is an advantage but long arms (high "ape index") seems to show up a lot among top fighters. GSP and Jon Jones both have long arms, even for their height. I would also note that all three (Mayweather, GSP, and Jon Jones) all switch stances. Then again, Khabib doesn't have long arms and was arguably the most dominant fighter of all time, so it seems like all body types have a chance.

​@@poleagkhabib being the most dominant fighter of all time is a good joke

@@asetr3w45 When was he ever in trouble brotha?

One of the best builds to have in a smaller division

#DAAAAAAAAAAWG

"The illusion of safety" is a great way to describe it. Wearing a helmet and pads makes things somewhat safer but the helmet and pads also means people can hit harder.