Is Alexander Volkanovski a chef? Learn about UFC featherweight champ’s impressive cooking skills
Australian MMA fighter and featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski happens to be a thriving culinary sensation.
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Away from the Octagon, champion Alexander Volkanovski is a sensational cook (Source: Instagram)
Reigning and defending UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski has made his way to the top of the fighting world. Infamous for his non-work ethic, friendliness, and unstoppable cardio, he is also relatively famous for his cooking. He has already successfully defended his title 5 times. Alexander Volkanovski could make content as a chef on his YouTube channel after retirement.
Outside the scope of fighting, the Aussie maintains a healthy work-life balance. He engages in outdoor activities, fish hunting, vlog making, sparring, and family time with his children. Concurrently, this also includes his knack for cooking.
Is Alexander Volkanovski a chef?
The Australian UFC champ of Macedonian heritage is by no means a professional chef. However, it also does not stop him though.
There are many within the promotion who can whip up a decent family dinner. Deiveson Figueiredo used to have an odd job as a sushi chef. Dustin Poirier tends to spice it up with his Louisiana-style hot sauce over social media reels. But the Aussie featherweight champ takes it up a notch, even if on his whim.
Alexander Volkanovski was born in Wollongong, NSW. He is strongly rooted in his Macedonian and Greek heritage. Volk can dabble in a multitude of Macedonian dishes. He can make a mean Polneti Piperki, Grilled Kolbasi, and Shopska Salad combo.
Tomahawk Steak, multi-cuisine chickens, burgers, and Mexican steak Tacos are only some of his other wonders. Sporadically, Volk uploads cooking dishes on his YouTube channel.
Does Alexander Volkanovski have a cooking show?
The answer to that would be – yes. Before facing Brian Ortega at UFC 260, he started his video blog – YouTube cooking show, Cooking with Volk. He started the series by tackling a lamb souvlaki and wagyu beef dish, and he went viral quickly. Volkanovski even fancied a little “Salt Bae” when adding his seasoning. A stylistic quotient he held on to, cooking Macedonian chicken wings and breasts.
Over the years, he has hosted many celebrities and internet personalities on his show. Action Bronson, Logan Paul, Mike Majlak, and internet sensation Hasbulla have joined the show.
Before UFC 276, Volkanovski hosted a segment called Cooking with Champions, along with then-middleweight champ Israel Adesanya. Volk and Adesanya have a claim to rank among the best champions in UFC history. The duo cooked a mean and juicy pair of Kangaroo burgers. Over the years, Adesanya and ‘The Great’ have upheld their association vividly.
Does Alexander Volkanovski do cooking collaborations?
His stint cooking on The MMA Hour Podcast with host Ariel Helwani is a famed affair for Helwani’s apparent atrocious choice of meat. Begging the question, does he do this often?
As of very late, Alexander Volkanovski appeared on his show with Rockpool Bar and Grill’s (Sydney) head chef Correy Costelloe in a collab. Costelloe happens to be the Culinary Director of all premium restaurants in the Hunter St. Hospitality portfolio. Accordingly, it shows the fighter’s attempt to make perfect restaurant-quality steaks.
Alongside, as of late, the UFC 298’s title gold defender has appeared in a collab with Melissa Leong. Leong, a freelance food writer, food critic, and renowned chef, is also a television host for the famed ‘Masterchef Australia. Volk might take a different route after retirement, and the fans will wholeheartedly support him.
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He is not a licensed chef.
He has a YouTube channel where he posts the videos.
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