00:00In the UFC Fight Night 270 headliner at London's O2 Arena,
00:04Movsar Ivloyev pushed his record out to 20-0 by handing Lerone Murphy the first loss of his career.
00:10While it was a contentious majority decision,
00:13the division's top contender insists his title fight is long overdue.
00:19While Ivloyev clearly took the final two rounds, the first three were debatable,
00:24and a point deduction in the fourth for an accidental groin strike made the decision raise more than a few
00:29eyebrows.
00:30Even so, he backed his 10th straight decision win with the company.
00:37Maybe even if I can't finish, if I show my striking skills,
00:41maybe it will be the key to getting the title shot, said the grappling specialist.
00:45This win was against a good striker in his land, an undefeated guy, so what else?
00:50Let's fight for the title.
00:53The featherweight king, Alexander Volkanovsky, is currently without a dance partner, and he liked the matchup.
00:58In fact, he practically invited Ivloyev to return to his wrestling, just to see how that plays out against the
01:05champ.
01:07I felt like he didn't want to push the wrestling.
01:09He wanted to stand up and maybe prove himself on the feet, Volkanovsky said after the win.
01:14I want him to try everything he can.
01:16I want him to try to take me down because I won't let it happen,
01:20and he'll be forced to fight on the feet because of my takedown defense.
01:25Performance of the night bonuses went to Iwo Baranowski and Chanel Dyer for their TKO finishes.
01:31Fight of the night honors went to Mason Jones versus Axel Sohler.
01:37Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn's acquisition of UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall for Matchroom's new talent agency
01:43could turn out to be a win for everyone.
01:46Well, maybe not everyone.
01:48Not even close.
01:49The UFC CEO and now Hearn's chief rival, Dana White, isn't convinced it's a good idea.
01:54He's not even sure what Hearn was thinking.
01:59Eddie was coming out saying,
02:01Ah, I look forward to competing with Zufa Boxing,
02:03and there's things that they don't know about boxing that they're going to learn.
02:07And then two weeks later, he's an MMA manager.
02:10I don't get the move.
02:12Since linking up with Aspinall, the British promoter hasn't been shy about UFC fighter pay.
02:18And after a matchroom boxing event over the weekend,
02:21he weighed in on one of MMA's hottest talking points,
02:24John Jones being left off the White House card.
02:28Jones revealed he was offered no more than $15 million,
02:31half of the $30 million he reportedly declined to face Aspinall,
02:35to fight on the UFC's Freedom 250 card this June.
02:39In response, Hearn claimed,
02:41John Jones and Tom Aspinall are under contract.
02:44If they weren't under contract, I could do Aspinall against John Jones,
02:48and I'll pay them double what the UFC offered them, probably.
02:53If Hearn is telling the truth,
02:54and saying he could get Jones and Aspinall paydays closer to $50 million per fight,
02:59then choosing not to re-sign with the UFC
03:01may start to look very appealing for champions nearing the end of their contracts.
03:08And over in Madrid with the PFL,
03:10the middleweight champion, Costello Van Stienis,
03:12made it two from two in his rivalry against Fabian Edwards to defend the title.
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