Ilia Topuria: Conor McGregor wasnt | MMA News
Former featherweight champion Ilia Topuria headlines this weekend’s UFC 317 battle card against former light-weight titleholder Charles Oliveira for the vacant 155-pound championship.
It’s battle week and Topuria has been doing the media rounds to promote the occasion. ‘during an interview with SHAK MMA, Topuria was requested about former two-division champion Conor McGregor‘s current nightclub incident in Ibiza.
Last week video surfaced of McGregor punching a man twice in the membership. Topuria reacted to the incident criticizing McGregor seemingly diminished punching energy.
“Did you see the last video? I saw it. He connect two punches and he wasn’t even able to knockout an average man,” Topuria stated. “He connected two punches and the guy walked off like normal, like anything happened.”
Shock second Conor McGregor knocks man out with TWO punches in Ibiza nightclub pic.twitter.com/NclBkDuSGF
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McGregor hasn’t fought since UFC 264 in July 2021. He hasn’t gained a battle since defeating Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone at UFC 246 in January 2020. While his profession as a fighter made him well-known, McGregor has change into just a identified for his conduct outdoors of the octagon.
In 2019, McGregor drew heavy criticism for punching an aged man in an Irish pub. In the identical 12 months, surveillance footage confirmed the Irishman snatch a telephone from a fan and smash it. No costs have been introduced against McGregor for the incident. He was arrested in 2020 and questioned over allegations of sexual assault. Last November he was discovered guilty of sexually assaulting Nikita Hand back to 2018.
McGregor’s return has been long mentioned but is not doubtless to ever occur. He was scheduled to face Michael Chandler at UFC 303 in June 2024 but pulled out of the battle with a toe harm after backing out of a press convention to promote the occasion.
As for Topuria, he has the chance on Saturday to do what McGregor did, transfer up to the light-weight division and seize a second UFC championship.
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