Max Holloway Gets Attention of Ilia Topuria Following UFC 300
During an interview with ESPN Deportes, Ilia Topuria reacted to Max Holloway’s performance at UFC 300.
Ilia Topuria: "Its clear for me, my next fight is against Max Holloway, congratulations and enjoy tonight, but after fighting me he will have to go back in the line"
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“Its clear for me, my next fight is against Max Holloway, congratulations and enjoy tonight, but after fighting me he will have to go back in the line”
A few days ago, Max Holloway’s manager Tim Simpson told Ariel Helwani on “The MMA Hour” that Holloway feels confident that he can defeat Topuria handily.
“Options. He really wants to fight [Ilia] Topuria, he feels like he’s going to whoop him, his words. He’ll do it anywhere,” Simpson said of Holloway. “He can [move back to 145], all of that internal discussion, obviously a challenge in front of him…you hear that Islam Makhachev is gonna fight in June, I don’t know who he’s going to fight…”
It wasn’t long ago when Topuria told Helwani that the likes of Max Holloway should just retire because he won’t be receiving another featherweight title shot.
“I’m going to beat a guy that whooped his ass three times. How? It doesn’t make any sense. Max, Yair, Brian Ortega, all of them, they can go and retire. I’m never going to give them a chance to fight for the title,” Topuria added.
It appears Topuria has been forced to change his tune.
