Ilia Topuria is becoming one of the best fighters in mixed martial arts today. Based on his latest results, he is already a true hunter of UFC legends. His victories against Alexander Volkanovski to win the featherweight title and against Max Holloway to successfully defend it have allowed him to sit at the table where legendary fighters eat.
Although the Spanish-Georgian champion has already expressed his intention to stop for a while to enjoy his achievements, It is inevitable to begin to glimpse who the next opponent will be which he will have to face. While El Matador is inactive, the possibility of Volkanovski facing Brazilian Diego Lopes at the UFC pay-per-view (PPV) event, scheduled for February in Sydney, Australia, is beginning to sound strongly.
But he is already starting to get ‘girlfriends’ for the dance among other legendary fighters from the American company. Thus, Dustin Poirier, former interim lightweight champion, has stepped forward, and as the fight between Topuria and Holloway ended, he assured that he wanted one of the two to be his next fight, probably the last of his career.
«Topuria is a great boxer, let’s show them things«Poirier, who was close to becoming absolute lightweight champion on several occasions, but fell to Khabib Nurmagomedov, Charles Oliveira and Islam Makhachev, recently wrote through social networks.
After the fight, the Louisianan declared that he was “more than impressed.” «I’m amazed, man. It’s not that I didn’t think it could happen, of course it could happen… I just didn’t think it would happen. “You saw him standing in the octagon with that rose in his hand, now is the time to give him his flowers because he is everything he said he was,” he said.
Poirier is another legend of the American company and, for Topuria, a lightweight fight against him could be very profitable in terms of numbers and low risk by not exposing the featherweight title because it takes place in a higher weight division. For the moment, we will have to wait, but this possible confrontation is already beginning to sound strongly. It would be a new legend to hunt.
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