Ilia Topuria, the first major Spanish champion of the UFC, visited on Monday night The Anthillthe entertainment program directed by Pablo Motos to which he returned after his last defense of the featherweight belt against Max Holloway. The fighter did not hold back anything in the interview, as usual, and even revealed the words of his father that made him become the great champion he is today.
“When I was little I was not talented at all, I always had a runny nose, I was skinny, constipated… no one could imagine that I would be a champion. In my family they saw that my brother always won and I lost, they offered me to play the piano or the violin… .do something else, and I always asked for a little more time“, revealed an Ilia who later revealed the words that they made him believe.
“The first important change in my life was thanks to my father. The first time sports entered my life I began to dream big. I had nothing special, but my father began to fantasize about me, he told me: “When “Let the world see what you have, you are going to revolutionize the sport.” He made me believe in myself,” he said.
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