On Saturday evening, September 9th, Tai Tuivasa squares off against Alexander Volkov in this Heavyweight Event. Be ready for all the UFC action with our UFC picks. The bout will take place at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia. Volkov stands 5 inches taller than Tuivasa, and will have a 5-inch reach advantage over him.

Alexander Volkov comes into this contest with a fight record of 36-10 with 24 knockouts and 3 submissions. Since getting submitted via an armbar by Tom Aspinall back on March 19^th of 2022, Volkov has won back-to-back fights. He first beat Jairzinho Rozenstruik with a first-round knockout, and then followed it up with another first round finish against Alexandr Romanov. Volkov is tough, and has even gone the distance with Ciryl Gane back in June of 2021, but lost via a unanimous decision in that 5-round bout. He's proven that he can finish fights on his feet, and he has the stamina to go 5 rounds with the toughest dudes in the UFC Heavyweight Division. Alexander "Drago" Volkov fights out of the Strela Team camp.

Tai Tuivasa has a fight record of 15-5 with 14 knockouts. Tuivasa has now dropped back-to-back fights since going on a 5-fight win-streak. His last win was against Derrick Lewis back in February of last year, and that was by a nasty elbow. Since then, Tuivasa has lost to Ciryl Gane and Sergei Pavlovich. To be candid, Tuivasa didn't look that impressive in any of those two losses. He was getting out-struck 110 to 29 before Gane knocked him out in the third round of that fight in September of last year. And then he was getting out-struck by Pavlovich 23 to 2 while losing the takedown battle 2 to 0 before getting knocked out with less than a minute to go in the first round. He will undoubtedly be looking for a big rebound against a tall task in Volkov on Saturday evening. Tai "Bam Bam" Tuivasa fights out of the Lions High Performance Centre camp.

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