Ilia Topuria’s victory over Max Holloway has left countless reactions on the other side of the pond. The vast majority of mixed martial arts fans in the United States believed that the Hawaiian would have enough to snatch the belt from the Hispanic-Georgian champion. However, El Matador won a resounding victory, managing to knock out a legend who had never been knocked out.
After the resounding victory, the Topuria technical team has already landed in Alicante. There, one of the members of his corner, Agustín Climent, has analyzed a victory by KO that they knew “was going to happen.” «I always knew that I was superior to him. It was waiting for the moment and getting the left hook in and then finishing it. It was what we anticipated. Holloway is a super warrior, we have seen him fight for belts, he is legendary, everything else is owed to him, but Ilia is in his best moment,” the coach noted.
Agustín Climent calls the champion “Saint Ilia.” «It is getting bigger and bigger, we are paying homage to it. I always see flaws in any opponent, Topuria is a genius, it will truly be very difficult for anyone to face him. You can’t grab him anywhere. And he’s only 27 years old, he’s on top of his game, he doesn’t stop. The greats say that you are a champion when you win the crown and defend it, Ilia did it, no one can say anything, it was very clear that he is the king. And now it’s time to conquer other kingdoms, but he is the king,” says the founder of the Climent Club with his brother Jorge.
Regarding the horizon that awaits Topuria by 2025, Agustín assures that it does not “yet have a fixed direction”, but that “everything is going to be good.” “Being the best fighter in the world in another category, fighting for the BMF, champion against champion… We all dream of being in this position,” says the coach, who emphasizes that “the Topurias are very perfectionists.” In any case, Agustín assures, the next fight “has to be in Spain.”
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