BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » optics https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Morning Report: Michael Bisping asks if Ilia Topuria is ‘pulling a Jon Jones’ by not fighting Arman Tsarukyan https://www.badmma.com/morning-report-michael-bisping-asks-if-ilia-topuria-is-pulling-a-jon-jones-by-not-fighting-arman-tsarukyan.html https://www.badmma.com/morning-report-michael-bisping-asks-if-ilia-topuria-is-pulling-a-jon-jones-by-not-fighting-arman-tsarukyan.html#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000 BAD MMA News https://www.badmma.com/morning-report-michael-bisping-asks-if-ilia-topuria-is-pulling-a-jon-jones-by-not-fighting-arman-tsarukyan.html Ilia Topuria | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Michael Bisping hopes Ilia Topuria doesn’t fall into the same pattern as Jon Jones . On his YouTube channel, Bisping opined on the potential challengers for Topuria, who recently vacated the featherweight title to move up to lightweight, where he was successful in capturing a vacant lightweight title when he knocked out Charles Oliveira at UFC 317 . The current frontrunners are Paddy Pimblett (a longtime rival that confronted Topuria in the cage after his UFC 317 triumph), Justin Gaethje, and Arman Tsarukyan .

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