LOS ANGELES – Alexander Volkanovski and Movsar Evloev have taken a long road to the championship main event of UFC 333, but that won’t be the first time the featherweights have crossed paths.
MMA Fighting’s José Young spoke to Volkanovski and Evloev during UFC 331 fight week in Los Angeles, and learned more about how the fighters trained together years ago when Volkanovski was on his way to the top of the 145-pound division, while Evloev was wrapping up a run as M-1 bantamweight champion.
“I used to be a bantamweight at that time, it was before UFC,” Evloev said. “We just had a couple of rounds and yeah, we trained at the same gym before. Now h
