Paddy Pimblett criticizes Ilia Topuria ahead of UFC fight

Paddy Pimblett and Ilia Topuria, similar a feline and a dog, proceed their rivalry that has lasted for years. Their past begins successful 2022, erstwhile they clashed verbally, and past physically, earlier a UFC lawsuit successful London. Since then, the animosity betwixt them has lone grown.

He tried to onslaught maine - Pimblett recalled successful an interrogation with the Spanish portal Marca. 

- I was alone, and helium was with 10 people. He tried to astonishment me. He became celebrated done my name. He thinks helium is excessively bully to combat me. He wouldn't beryllium wherever helium is if it weren't for me.

At the time, Topuria competed successful the featherweight category, and Pimblett successful the lightweight category, truthful their combat didn't marque overmuch sense. Everything changed erstwhile Topuria decided to springiness up the featherweight class and determination to lightweight. In June, helium dominantly defeated Charles Oliveira and won the UFC title belt.

-I said close erstwhile helium moved to lightweight that I was the 1 to conscionable him. I was expected to beryllium his archetypal hostile successful that category. But that didn't happen, alternatively they gave him a rubric fight," the 26-year-old British combatant added.

Football passion

Topuria and Pimblett besides stock a passionateness for football, but Paddy doubts the sincerity of Topuria's instrumentality claims. After winning his archetypal UFC belt, Topuria was celebrated astatine a Real Madrid crippled and aboriginal expressed his tendency to signifier a combat astatine the Santiago Bernabeu 1 day.

-Let's beryllium real, Topuria is not Spanish. That should beryllium clarified close away. He is German. He pretends to beryllium Georgian and Spanish conscionable to get much fans, but successful information helium was calved successful Germany. He is German, Pimblett said.

Topuria was so calved successful Germany, his parents are Georgian refugees, and aboriginal moved to Spain, wherever helium lives today. 

Pimblett, however, believes that Topuria is utilizing his fans to summation his popularity.

-He conscionable clung to idiosyncratic else's fame to get much fans and followers. He's a fake. He's arsenic fake arsenic fractional of his followers. It's proven that fractional of them were bought. He's the fakest antheral ever, a specified transcript of Conor McGregor - concluded the British fighter.