Islam Makhachev reacts to Ilia Topuria’s harsh words

The UFC country got a caller dose of hostility again, and Islam Makhachev and Ilia Topuria were successful the halfway of attention. The existent welterweight champion spoke openly astir his narration with the Spanish-Georgian fighter, admitting that helium has felt the hostility coming from the different broadside for a agelong time. Although helium does not cognize precisely what is the crushed for specified animosity, the experienced combatant from Dagestan believes that it has agelong gone beyond the limits of the athletics itself.

In the play erstwhile some of them wore belts successful the lightweight and featherweight categories, the communicative of their imaginable "superfight" was astir inevitable.

Similar value categories and galore different factors made the lucifer overmuch much exciting.

One was defeated lone erstwhile successful his full career, portion the different inactive has nary defeat. However, the combat ne'er took place.

Tension without fight

Meanwhile, the 33-year-old from Dagestan moved to the welterweight class and won the loop up to 77 kilograms, portion his rival took vantage of the concern and became the lightweight champion. Despite this, the younger combatant did not halt publically calling him and his full squad names. In an interrogation with eldoberdanMMA, helium went a measurement further, not hiding his animosity towards the remainder of the Dagestan circle.

“They are truthful arrogant and arrogant. I would truly similar to suffocate him successful beforehand of Habib, and if Habib wants to interfere aft that, I volition gladly basal connected his head,” said Topuria, besides mentioning the legendary Khabib Nurmagomedov.

He reacted to these words much calmly, but clearly, successful an interrogation with Ushatayka. “I don’t know, but you tin consciousness it,” said Makhachev erstwhile asked if helium considered these statements disrespectful. “He has immoderate benignant of hatred towards us. But I deliberation we volition resoluteness it. Either someway earlier the fight, oregon successful the future. He is presently connected a break. Maybe 1 time we volition resoluteness it successful the cage and past everything volition beryllium clear.”

For now, neither of them has a archetypal loop defence scheduled. While 1 refuses performances owed to problems with preparations, the different temporarily took a interruption owed to idiosyncratic reasons. "something is bothering him", concluded the experienced champion. "we person to find retired what it is." The rivalry frankincense remains successful words, but fewer uncertainty that 1 time it could determination to wherever it means the astir to both, wrong the cage.