Former Bellator heavyweight champion Alexander Volkov came to the UFC this past fall and got the hard part out of the way: He won his promotional debut. At UFC Fight Night 99 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Volkov took a split decision from Timothy Johnson in a tough fight. But the bout was made harder, he said, because of a mistake he made in the fight that caused him to not only need to beat Johnson, but another opponent after being backed into a corner: himself. “The first fight in the UFC was very emotional for me – I had a lot of things going through my mind,” Volkov told MMAjunkie. “For me, it was a fight against myself. In the first round, I hurt him and I went for the kill, and I did a lot of things I’ve never done before.
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For UFC on FOX 24′s Alexander Volkov, UFC debut was about getting a win over himself – MMA Junkie