This weekend Perth hosts one of the most improbable David and Goliath contests in global combat sports history: the diminutive 1.65-metre tall Aussie “pocket rocket”, Alex Volkanovski, 34, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s No.1 pound-for-pound fighter and featherweight champion, will battle the much taller, stronger and fancied lightweight champion, Islam Makhachev, 31.
It’s showtime for Alex Volkanovski. Getty Images