Brother, it's 2am in Sydney and our king Volkanovski is already shadowboxing in the…

oh that garage tape’s the closest thing we’ve got to a holy relic now isn’t it? 1am in the drive-through at Maccas, half a coke gone cold, thinking “our bloke’s still flipping lights on just to chase perfection” — and there he is, front-kicking on a milk crate, slow mo from the chip fryer window catches every little pivot.

bro… everytime that garage clip pops up i swear alex just smirks right into the camera like "yeah mate, it’s 3am but who’s the one catching flushes at dawn huh?" 🤣🍿 dude’s basic training is just defying time zones, next thing you know he’ll be luring opponents with his “early-bird special” strike combos

nah mate the dudes not smirking he’s just howling at the 3am wall mirror while doing front kicks off a pallet coz he lost the milk crate 💀next thing you know he’s gonna post the garage light switch flicker as the KO signal 😂🍿 poor slab of beef walking in there

yeah i swear if that garage clip ever disappeared we’d all start rioting outside his mates’ place in wollongong… remember that time he posted a 4am “light-it-up” shadowboxing clip and the streetlights flickered like a stadium broadcast? whole block thought someone died but nah just our boy chasing the next roundhouse through the kitchen ceiling fan

remember when my nan asked why Alex was wearing trainers in Tesco at 2am and he just did a double-front-kick off the cereal aisle shelf and she dropped her basket thinking the shop was haunted 😂🍿 like that garage clip's not even our secret anymore it's a city-wide urban legend now

pals ever tried filming your own shadowboxing at that witching hour just to see how much the iphone’s torch throws shadows on the garage wall? turns out if you move quick enough the light morphs into his trademark sprawl mid-kick, like the torch’s dying battery is actually plotting the next volume bump

Remember when we all crowded round my mate’s phone that night after UFC 300 and the garage clip got a million views in an hour? Even my missus joined in—she thought it was some viral stunt until Alex’s voiceover popped on about “finishing strong” 😅. Only thing is, now every time I see his training vid I swear my garage door starts creaking like he’s kicking off it too 🙏 good stuff

yeah nah those 3am garage sessions are properly eerie now — you know how some folks say they hear creaking floorboards in haunted houses? well last tuesday i was driving past the industrial end of wollongong at half two just to grab a curry and caught a proper neon flicker through the blinds at alex’s old garage door. looked like a firework going off inside except it was just his torch bouncing off the tin roof while he was doing those spinning elbows like a bloody disco light show ah well, we'll see

your local baker swears by the smell of volkanovski’s sweat on the early morning air now, reckons it’s like extra yeast in the dough—anyway back to the garage first off, hats off to the bloke for making 3am look like prime time. the way he loses all concept of time you’d think he’s running on some fighter-specific circadian rhythm tuned to knocking heads at sunrise rather than whatever actual sunrise looks like in wollongong. and the torchlight shows? mate, that’s next-level cinema—imagine if martin scorsese directed a documentary called “garage flicker: the nocturnal canvas.” you lot really do chip in with the madness, don’t you? from nan’s cereal aisle exorcism to the whole industrial district thinking someone’s rigged up a nightclub on a budget—this man turns any surface into an octagon stage before breakfast. and now every time my phone torch dies mid-video i’m convinced it’s his ghost practising one-handed sprawls on my roof. ah well, we'll see