The giant fighting of the UFC have always been characterized by implicit hard, long and round -trip negotiations. This is something that can be customized in the two fights that probably wants to see the fan currently and is costing to end up closing. We talked about duels between Jon Jones (heavyweight champion) and Tom Aspinall (interim heavyweight champion), and that of Islam Makhachev (lightweight champion) and Ilia Topuria (Excluming of the pen weight). Both are being a headache.
But the case that concerns us is now the last one. Makhachev, champion with more defenses of the title of the Lightweight History of the UFC, is constantly braking the possibility that Topuria attacks his world title, backed by the advice of his representative, Ali Abdelaziz, and his coach and mentor, Khabib Nurmagomedov. This has granted an interview with Adam Zubayraev, where he has cooled the possibility that the Hispanic-Georgian is the next challenger.
«Topuria is a good fighter in 145 pounds (pen), but we have not seen it in the 155 pounds (light). I do not know what kind of agreement they have Topuria and the UFC, but if you look at it from the point of view of Islam, he has already given the 145 -pound champion two opportunities [Volkanovski]. Islam won twice, a third time … », Khabib said in the aforementioned interview.
«Let’s imagine: Topuria go up and have an opportunity for the title right now. Islam wins. And then Topuria loses again. Islam would have won someone who is a nobody in the 155 pounds. In terms of legacy, Islam risk too much. It must become a real contender and Islam will fight with whatever. Islam will soon be 34 years old, wants to fight with great names that deserve it. It is nothing personal, but you go up as a division, Gánatelo, ”he continued to say.
But in addition, Khabib has put Arman Tsarukyan on the map again, the number one contender of the ranking, and the man who was going to face Makhachev earlier this year. However, a day of the lawsuit, the Armenian made public that he had an injury, which was exacerbated with the weight cut, something that enraged the president of the UFC, Dana White, and decided to send him to the ‘freezer’, ensuring that he would not be the following to have the opportunity for the title.
However, Khabib now states that the Armenian would be a more competitive fight for Makhachev than the one who could raise Topuria, for generalized mosqueo of many fans of mixed martial arts. “I think Arman Tsarukyan is a more competitive fighter who Ilyia Topuria for Islam Makhachev”. Thus, after the Khabib’s door, everything is heading to finally be Charles Oliveira who will face Topuria, either in summer or in autumn, although everything is at the expense of whether Makhachev finally decides to climb from division to the Wélter, something we will know from May 10.
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