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There is very little left for Ilia Topuria (15-0) defend the UFC featherweight belt against Max Holloway (26-7). will be next October 26, in Abu Dhabiand from there the ‘Matador’ connected with Canadian journalist Ariel Helwani to give an interview.
Knock out Holloway: “The first 10 seconds I’m going to aim for the middle of the octagon, and I’m going to stay there. I want to give the best and most exciting 10 seconds in UFC history to the fans because they deserve it. Yes [Holloway] “He stays in the middle, I promise I’m going to knock him out, I’m going to rip his head off.”
His rival tried to avoid him: “Holloway was avoiding fighting me all the time…they [UFC] They told me he was asking to stay at lightweight, fight Michael Chandler. I don’t know, he asked for many, many guys… They told him ‘No Max, you have to fight Ilia because he wants to fight you’… So he finally had to accept, but at first he tried really hard to avoid me.”
Holloway is not on my level. It’s going to be in the first round. The guy who beat him three times and I knocked him out in the second round…
Ilia Topuria, fighter
Will knock him out: “It’s going to be in the first round, Holloway is not at my level. Volkanovski is the guy who defeated him three times. I knocked out the guy who beat him three times in the second round. And? What makes you think that? “Volkanovski was a very powerful rival for me, and he is for everyone.”
McGregor: “I saw what McGregor said in Marbella. When I look in the mirror, below my waist, sometimes I also think that I am more African than Francis Ngannou.”
