There are only four days left until Ilia Topuria puts his belt on the line against Max Holloway at UFC 308. During this Wednesday, the contender for the UFC featherweight title has called El Matador of being a “copy” of the Irish superstar Conor McGregor, noting that “he is imitating his tattoos and his aura.”
«This guy is an imitator. And you are the best friend of the guy he is following,” he responded to journalist Oscar Willis, in charge of The MacLife, whose owner is the Dublin one. «You know the guy he’s imitating. This guy is a copycat. You know, the tattoos, the aurathe way he approaches fights… He’s a copycat and your best friend is the guy he’s trying to copy. He’s just trying to steal things, he’s trying to steal someone else’s aura… It’s amazing,” he added.
Of course, he has not spared his praise for the Spanish champion’s way of fighting, although he has pointed out that his reign “is not proven.” «It’s an animal. It’s good. A lot of people forget that he came to the UFC as a ground fighter, a grappler, that’s what he was. But he came and started knocking people out. His boxing is good. You can’t be a hater and say he’s not good as a fighter. You know it is. He has shown it, he has done what he had to do to be where he is. But you have to see me go out on Saturday night and it’s going to be fun,” Holloway pointed out to the media.
The Hawaiian candidate has also spoken about the possible outcome of the main event at UFC 308: «You never know what can happen. This one has been hitting people right and bringing them down. So that’s always fun. And then we see what happens, you know, I know he talked about his cardio. He thinks he has cardio. We’ll see what happens on Saturday night,” Holloway said.
He also wanted to talk about Ilia Topuria’s invitation to exchange blows in the first ten seconds of the fight, something that Holloway did against Justin Gaethje but in the last ten seconds, leaving one of the most iconic KOs in the history of the UFC. “He could have won it against Josh Emmett, you can go back to that fight and see what happened when Josh was trying to hit him and what he did was back away for the rest of the fight,” argued the former Hawaiian champion.
Regarding the significance of their fight, classified by some as the fight of the year in the UFC, Holloway has explained that, when their names are on par with Alex Pereira or Jon Jones who have fought or will fight this year, it is quite surprising. «When you put those names against ours and they say that this is the fight that everyone wants. “That is quite surprising,” the candidate concluded.
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