Alexander Volkanovski practices with the former World Championship BJJ to prepare for UFC 294

Only a few days left, Alexander Volkanovski will be with Islam Makhachev for the fur belt at UFC 294. At this time, Australian boxers are actively preparing to play. One of the practitioners he chose was coach Craig Jones, who was holding a black belt BJJ.

Not only that, Craig Jones also has achieved many different titles in his competition career. The notable achievements of him are the World's No-Gjj World Championship when he was still in purple belt, two silver medals in the world submission and 3 medals in the European Grappling Championship.

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Craig Jones is a friend of Alex Volkanovski preparing for UFC 294

Craig Jones was born in 1991 in Adelaide, southern Australia. He started practicing BJJ from 2006 in his hometown until he went to the purple belt. After that, Craig moved in many different places such as Melbourne, New York and now Austin, Texas.

This is an extremely quality practitioner for Volk when he does not have much time to prepare the upper stage. Earlier, Alex Volkanovski took a match against Islam Makhachev just 12 days before the UFC 294 event took place. Sharing with the media before the match, he revealed the level of weight when he accepted the competition was 82kg. Thus, the male boxer will have to cut 11.7kg in 11 days to ensure the competition.

The reason Alexander Volkanovski accepted such an urgent play because he was a chosen boxer to replace Charles Oliveira withdrawal due to injury. Even so, the Australian puncher is still confident that he can defeat the opponent without running out of time.

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