Ilia Topuria: “Let’s see if I’m going to have to knock out Javier Tebas”

Ilia Topuria (15-0) arrived at the first press conference of the ‘Fight Week’ of UFC 308 equipped with a beige suit and with a lot of energy, despite being in the middle of a weight cut. An impetus that turned, almost at the end of the press conference, against the president of La Liga, Javier Tebas, in charge of establishing Real Madrid’s match against Barcelona at 9:00 p.m., so that the end coincides with the start of the fight of the Spanish UFC champion.

“Let’s see if instead of knocking out Max Holloway I’m going to have to knock out the person responsible for putting that match at the same time as the fight,” Topuria snapped during his speech. “It’s Javier Tebas,” Cope’s journalist, Ángel García Muñiz, told him. “Well, let’s go for Javier Tebas next,” Topuria stated bluntly, visibly upset by the movement of the top manager of the Spanish soccer league.