Maybe Alex Volkanovski has a post-career future as a trainer.
The two-time featherweight king cornered gym pal Colby Thicknesse in the 26-year-old Aussie’s prelim scrap with Vince Morales, and results indicate the partnership works.
Thicknesse won his second straight UFC outing, using a toolbox full of submission tries and standup prowess to earn a competitive but clear decision at bantamweight.
A winner in nine of 10 pro fights, Thicknesse went for a guillotine, a triangle and an armbar in the opening round, then held his own on the feet in the second and got through a difficult mid-round stretch in the third while earning three 29-28 scores from all three judges.
Morales, now 0-4 in his second UFC stint, hasn’t won an octagonal match since 2021.
“(Thicknesse) had to go deep and go the distance,” blow-by-blow man Brendan Fitzgerald said.
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