Ilia Topuria claims he could knock out Crawford

Ilia Topuria, the UFC lightweight champion, has erstwhile again shown his confidence. The 27-year-old combatant has precocious knocked retired Alexander Volkanovski, Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira, and it is wide that helium lacks thing successful presumption of skills. Although this is mixed martial arts, not axenic nonrecreational boxing, Ilia does not fell his ambitions and believes that helium could marque a large measurement forward.

In his latest station connected the X platform, Topuria was precise direct: 

"I volition not speech astir what would hap betwixt maine and Crawford successful the octagon, I volition speech astir what would hap successful the ring. I would enactment him to slumber astatine archetypal contact!!" With these words, helium intelligibly showed that helium would beryllium acceptable for a boxing duel with 1 of the presently strongest fighters successful the world.

Believes successful his boxing

The large combatant is already being compared to Conor McGregor, particularly successful presumption of attractiveness and "crossover" potential. McGregor acceptable a inclination a fewer years agone erstwhile helium entered the ringing against Floyd Mayweather successful a ace fight, and contiguous Topuria points retired that helium could beryllium his replacement successful the satellite of mixed martial arts. His assurance successful the combat with Crawford gives the content of a existent prima who is not acrophobic of a challenge.

Terence Crawford, a 37-year-old American, has been named successful galore places arsenic 1 of the champion boxers successful the world. With a grounds of 41-0 and 31 knockouts, helium is the undisputed champion successful 2 divisions, often conscionable down Oleksandr Usyk and sometimes down Japan's Naoya Inoue. 

On Saturday, Crawford is preparing for a large lucifer against Canelo Alvarez, the implicit champion of the ace middleweight, and galore judge that this duel is important successful his career.

Although Topuria and Crawford are successful antithetic disciplines, the assurance of the young UFC combatant is clear. His connection astir the imaginable knockout successful the archetypal interaction shows that Ilia is not acrophobic of a situation and believes successful his abilities. It is evident that, if a boxing lucifer were to instrumentality place, Topuria would beryllium acceptable to enactment connected a spectacular performance, and fans astir the satellite are already speculating astir this imaginable match.