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Aljamain Sterling breaks down the potential Ilia Topuria vs. Islam Makhachev fight

BAD MMA News — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:12:33 +0000

When featherweight champion Ilia Topuria decided to vacate the championship and move up to the lightweight division, a matchup against lightweight titleholder Islam Makhachev became a possibility. A fight between the two would pit the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world against the No. 4 ranked pound-for-pound fighter. It will put Makhachev’s 27-1 record against Topuria’s flawless 16-0 resume. Former featherweight champion Aljamain Sterling believes it’s ‘it’s very possible’ that Topuria could defeat Makhachev. “It would be madness, but it’s very possible,” Sterling said on his YouTube channel

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Ilia Topuria: ‘I know I’m much better than Islam Makhachev’

BAD MMA News — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:50:31 +0000

Featherweight champion Ilia Topuria is in Sydney, Australia to corner his older brother Aleksandre Topuria who fights on the UFC 312 preliminary card on Saturday. While there, “El Matador” has been doing the media rounds. In an interview with Fox Sports Australia , Topuria stated that he’d go up to the lightweight division to face champion Islam Makhachev if the fight promotion would allow him to. “This is something that I want to do. The UFC knows that, but at the end of the day this is something that the UFC decides,” Topuria said. ”They know how to run the business

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UFC 311 Post-Fight Press Conference

BAD MMA News — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:23:32 +0000

UFC 311 took place at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif. on Saturday and was headlined by two world title bouts. In the main event, lightweight champion Islam Makhachev faced late replacement Renato Moicano

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Arman Tsarukyan believes he’s the only lightweight that can beat Islam Makhachev

BAD MMA News — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 21:06:30 +0000

When Arman Tsarukyan made his octagon debut in April 2019, he didn’t realize that it would set up a championship rematch down the road. Tsarukyan accepted a short-notice fight against Islam Makhachev and lost via unanimous decision.

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UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Tsarukyan 2 Press Conference

BAD MMA News — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 22:39:25 +0000

UFC CEO Dana White recently announced that two title fights will headline the UFC 311 fight card on Jan. 18 in Inglewood, California. The main event features a lightweight title rematch between champion Islam Makhachev and Arman Tsarukyan . The bantamweight title will be on the line in the co-main event. Titleholder Merab Dvalishvili faces undefeated U mar Nurmagomedov . Hear what the UFC 311 title bout fighters have to say

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Kamaru Usman believes Alex Pereira is the top pound-for-pound fighter

BAD MMA News — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:46:05 +0000

Lightweight champion Islam Makhachev sits atop the UFC’s pound-for-pound rankings, but there’s growing number of people who believe light heavyweight titleholder Alex Pereira should be in that spot. Pereira arrived in the UFC in late 2021 carrying a lot of recognition for his two kickboxing wins over then middleweight champion Israel Adesanya . Three fights into his UFC career, Pereira faced Adesanya in the UFC 281 main event in November 2021. He had only been in the organization for a year.