Alexander Volkov has faced exclusively ranked opponents for 12 straight fights

Alexander Volkov has been fighting top-tier opposition exclusively for his last 12 UFC bouts, with his most recent unranked opponent being Greg Hardy in Moscow in November 2019. Volkov himself has remained in the top 15 continuously for over nine years. In those 12 fights, he has faced an opponent outside the top 10 only once, when he met Alexander Romanov, who was ranked 14th at the time. The post highlights Volkov's sustained elite-level competition over an extended period.