All right, our next guest defends his title in the headlining bout of UFC 273 in Jacksonville, Florida.

That'll be April 9th, although if you're watching, and this is Australia, it'll be April 10th in your neck of the woods.

It's the featherweight champion himself, Alex Volcanowski. Hi, Alex, how are you?

I'm very good, mate. I'm very good. How are you?

I'm good. I'm delighted to talk to you. All right, Alex, let's start with this part of the conversation.

When you very first began to train as all fighters, you're just learning techniques, how to throw a jab, defend a double, blah, blah, blah.

But over time, you learn what works for you and you develop a more cohesive style, right?

You have a certain style now. At what point in your fighting journey, did you realize you were going to end up with the style that you're using to both win and maintain UFC championship? When did you get to that point?

Man, it's tricky because over time, it slowly changes. A lot of it's going to be a similar approach of how I mold things together and things like that.

But at the same time, you add like little tools and you look at fights earlier in my career compared to now, you're probably going to see a more striking heavy side of things.

But still the same rules apply in a sense, with the pressure and obviously scrambling the brain and all that type of stuff.

Man, I don't know. It's something that me and Joa and my coach are Jo Lopez.

We've just molded it together. I think it's just through time and training together.

It's sort of hard to explain because I know exactly what you're talking about.

But I'm at the same time. I couldn't tell you. I couldn't pick a day when that happened, but I mean through time.

That's what a lot of people say. What's something that's...

Like, you know, because me and Joa are so close, you know, what is it? It's just that he knows me. Nobody knows me better than my coach, Jo Lopez.

You know, my whole, you know, my whole style, like nobody knows my style, more than, more than Joa.

And that's something that we've molded together through time, you know, might not be the craziest techniques, you know, spin shit and all that type of stuff.

But the right tool for the right job, you know what I mean? That's how I am.

You know, I'll have a look, see what's happening and pick my shots and just scramble their brain while I'm doing it.

I want to get back to the scrambling of the brain part, but staying with your coach Joa Lopez for just a second.

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