Sean O'Malley: 'Ilia Topuria is a | MMA News
Former featherweight champion Ilia Topuria stole the show at UFC 317 knocking out Charles Oliveira in the first spherical.
Topuria relinquished the 145-pound championship to transfer up to the 155-pound weight class with plans of turning into a two-division UFC titleholder. His plans got here to fruition.
Topuria confronted former light-weight champion Charles Oliveira for the vacant light-weight title in the UFC 317 primary occasion this previous Saturday and logged one other knockout win over a legend. Heading into the UFC 317 title struggle, Topuria was coming off knockout wins over Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway.
Considering Topuria’s final three performances, former bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley believes Topuria has solidified himself as one of the greats.
“He’s up there with Jon Jones. Knocked out Volk. Knocked out Max. Knocked out Charles,” O’Malley stated on his YouTube channel. “F**king knocking out Volk, knocking out Holloway then knocking out Charles is f**king insane. Ilia is a f**king superstar.”
“Ilia’s just that f**king good. He landed a clean right hand. The right hand knocked him out. The left hook just made it f**king worse. Holy sh*t. That was crazy,” continued O’Malley. “Charles gets hit in a lot of his fights. That was just Ilia being that f**king good. That was f**king insane. Just sat on a right hand, left hook.”
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Topuria made his skilled combined martial arts debut in April 2015 and reeled off seven consecutive submission wins to begin his profession. Four of his next 5 fights ended in knockouts. His final three fights have been knockout wins over champions or former titleholders.
The 28 year-old Topuria indicated that he’d be prepared to struggle again this 12 months during the UFC 317 Post-Fight Press Conference and has an opponent in thoughts. “El Matador” needs to face Paddy Pimblett next. O’Malley believes a struggle between Pimblett and Topuria is the largest light-weight bout the struggle promotion could make.
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