It’s 9 in the morning in Spain when Aleksandre Topuria (5-1) It connects to the zoom meeting organized by the UFC From Sydney, in Australia. It’s the Fight Week of UFC 312, that of Debut of ‘The Conqueror’ in the largest MMA company in the world. Your moment. The one who has been waiting for so long. And although there was a huge risk of the fight being canceled at the last minute, nothing has stopped it. From there, in full weight cut, attend to brand.
Question: How did your adaptation to Australia?
Answer: Super good, really, super good. We have been a good time here. More than adapted, so super good.
Q: It has been there for more than three weeks …
A: Yes, a little more than three … but we did things well, as we had to do them. There are many hours of difference, but we are already well.
Q: You will fight around 12 noon local time, correct?
A: Yes. For more than three weeks I am training at the same time, so we had already calculated it. I have professional people working on the team, so we are more than prepared.
I have professional people working on the team, so we are more than prepared
Aleksandre Topuria
Aleksandre and Ilia Topuria pose together.UFC.
Q: How is your day to day there?
A: Well … at first when we arrived there was more time, more margin to continue training and do hard training. The day is to train tomorrow and afternoon, give 100% in the Tatami. Even today we had training at Tatami. We are on Wednesday, after I have the weighing … but well, thank God we are fine since we did things very well. We have not left everything for the latter. People, well, tend to do things at the end, because they don’t want to carry that stress of weight loss and all that … but I always have my food well. I’m always prepared. And the truth is that we are quite well.
Thank God we are fine since we did things very well. We have not left everything for the last
Aleksandre Topuria
Q: The weighing will be at 3:00 p.m. local time on Friday and fights Sunday at 12:00. It has almost two days of recovery and rehydration.
A: I would say that more than rehydration is going to be the rest because it is two nights. On that side and for everything we have analyzed, the body will be able to rest better. Do not get up, do not break the dream, etc … But hey, as I told you, we have professional people working on the team, so we are more than care.
Q: What I talked to your team has been very positive. They say that it is better than ever on physical, mental and spiritual level.
A: Thank God, yes. Now only God’s will is missing, and if God is with me, no one can stop me.
If God is with me, nobody can stop me
Aleksandre Topuria
The conqueror will debut this weekend at the UFC
Q: What team has taken? The Climent brothers, is Ilia, Jesús Gallo, Guram Kutateladze, has arrived Merab Dvalishvili …
A: Many people, really. I like to have my people close always, I don’t care what I have to do, put or whatever. I always surround myself with my people, I always surround myself with professionals, and this time it has not been different. We have the entire ‘Team’ here in Australia, the entire team. The whole team … and a few have also come on their own and all that.
I always surround myself with my people, I always surrounded myself with professionals, and this time it hasn’t been different
Aleksandre Topuria
Q: Many people will discover it in this UFC 312. For anticipating … how would it be defined?
A: First of all, I would define me as a working person. It’s not for applauding me, right? But it is what I always say here in the team, always. Guram has lived with me for half a year, so he knows perfectly that I don’t have a ‘day off’. I am working, but really every day. This is my life. So, for not working it won’t be, do you understand? That is what I would say, a working person, more than the style and that … everything you want, but the most important thing is the desire you throw to all this, and I have made him a lot of desire.
I am working, but really every day. This is my life
Aleksandre Topuria
Q: Who did not know: he was one step away from running out of fight and having to become Spain. Haddon, his rival, was injured. And finally Thicknesse appeared. How did he live it?
A: Honestly, as soon as I read the message I thought: ‘Will I have to wait more (to debut)?’ Because we were two weeks and for me this was a very anticipated moment. So the first thing I thought was if I was going to have to return to Spain. I am not going to say who is the message, but of an UFC person and put him to wait a day or two, but he looks very difficult to find someone and more in Australia. I no longer had an answer, but I said, I’m going to stay and I’m going to wait, I’m going to continue weight. Moreover, in my team only two people knew and here we were at 10. Then we have continued looking, looking … and thank God we are. I could quietly say that I was leaving. I keep what I have obtained here and come back on the next billboard. Moreover, they gave me options to fight and one of the options was to fight in London, but I said no, I wanted to fight here, now. And I was going to wait for whatever it need.
I said, I’m going to stay and I’m going to wait, I’m going to continue weight
Aleksandre Topuria
Aleksandre Topuria poses with the flags of Spain and Georgia.UFC.
Q: Now he faces Colby Thicknesse.
A: The goal is the same: is to break it and end it. The plan is very similar, really. The other boy (Haddon) was a more experienced person and had already fought inside the UFC. This boy is going to be a debutant too and the truth is that nothing has changed. I’m going to make my fight. I am not going to adapt to him, and he will not be able to adapt to me. I am going to make my fight inside the cage, I will be the one to take the rhythm of the fight.
The goal is to break him and end him
Aleksandre Topuria
Q: They did not place it as a favorite against Haddon, now it is. How do you see the opinion of you from outside?
A: I really did not go to that side of showing something to someone, I have to prove it to myself and enjoy the moment because I am the one who works and I am the one who gets up every morning. Honestly, I thank everyone for all the messages and I am a quite grateful person with all that, but from there it affects me or that I care what people think … I don’t care at all what people think, really I don’t mind. I thank everyone who thinks of good, and those who think badly … as neither fu nor fa. I am not interested at all. Well, if someone means something to me, well, I invite you to chat with me. We sat and talked. But from there they feel on the computers and write opinions or whatever, I am not interested at all.
I don’t care at all what people think, I really don’t care
Aleksandre Topuria
Q: It is a good reflection.
A: I do all this for me, for my team, because of the desire that I have and all the work I have been doing so far, do you understand? Not to show absolutely nothing to anyone. I am a quite discreet person. I am not a person who can know much more than I show. It is not what interests me. I am interested in people knowing work. Of course, this is a business where they look at you, they see you, you get known apart, of course, Ilia …. I have everything assumed. But I don’t do it for anyone, for anyone. I work for me, for my people, for my future, that of my family, children, grandchildren … and I am enjoying the moment.
