Setback for Ilia Topuria. The Spanish-Georgian, 24, is scheduled to fight at UFC 270 (January 22). It is a very important fight, since after falling from the top 15 at the end of the year, he was scheduled to face Movsar Evloev, number 13 in the ranking. The winner, almost certainly, would get into the top 10 … but that fight will not happen. This Wednesday night, different journalists in the United States reported that the Russian was out of the fight for “health reasons”, but no further reasons were specified.
Topuria himself confirmed it on social networks. “Bad news! Evloev is out. We already knew what was going to happen“said Ilia, who precisely arrived in the United States this Wednesday. The idea of the UFC is to keep him on the undercard of the first PPV of the year, where it was also located on its website as the third most important fight.
The difficult thing, now, is to find someone who wants to accept the fight with a little more than a week in advance. The Topuria team asks Dan Ige, number nine in the ranking and with which the Hispanic-Georgian exchanged tweets a few months ago. Ilia himself also did it on Twitter. “Dan Ige, are you willing to fight? Let me know as soon as possible, I hope to see you on January 22“The ‘Matador’ goes without fear. He wants a greater challenge than he had.
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