Jean Silva vows to leave UFC with loss in potential fight against Alexander Volkanovski

Jean
Silva is ready to risk everything to get the next title
shot. 

Silva (17-3) is rallying for a featherweight title shot against
Alexander
Volkanovski. However, perennial contender Movsar
Evloev recently maintained his undefeated record by handing
Lerone
Murphy his only professional loss at
UFC London last weekend. That did not deter Silva, who was in
attendance at UFC London, from walking up to UFC executiveHunter
Campbell with a contract. 

Meanwhile, Volkanovski has clearly expressed his preference to
defend his title against Evloev rather than Silva. Volkanovski
notes that he has two wins over Diego
Lopes, who defeated Silva via a technical knockout last year.
Volkanovski believes Silva is yet to prove himself, and a win over
the Brazilian won’t add much to his legacy compared to a win over
Evloev. 

However, Silva hasn’t given up hope of earning the next title shot.
Silva argues that the division will stall if Evloev becomes the
champion, given the Russian’s history of fight cancellations. Silva
wants Volkanovski to engage in a fan-friendly fight with him
instead of defending takedowns against a wrestler like Evloev.
Silva also vows to leave the UFC if he loses against
Volkanovski.

‘Stop All the BS’

“If Movsar wins the division just comes to a halt… If you think
about Movsar, 11 fights canceled, what is that gonna do?” Silva
said on “The Ariel Helwani Show.” “If this guy wins the belt,
the belt’s just gonna go away… [Volkanovski] is afraid of facing
me. What does he want to do? Defend against takedowns for 25
minutes?… Let’s just stop all the BS. Let’s think straight about
it. Let’s go in and exchange some strikes. I’ll say more: if
Volkanovski wins, I’ll leave the UFC. That’s what I’ll say.”

While Evloev (20-0) has had 11 canceled fights in the
UFC, most of them were due to factors out of his control.
Undefeated in 10 UFC fights, Evloev has defeated the likes of
Murphy, Aljamain
Sterling, Arnold
Allen and Lopes. Meanwhile, Silva (17-3) has finished all six
of his UFC wins while only losing to Lopes. “Lord” has notably
beaten Allen, Bryce
Mitchell and Drew
Dober.