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Max Holloway Calls Ilia Topuria a ‘Copycat’ of Conor McGregor Forward of UFC 308 Showdown


Max Holloway will quickly face Ilia Topuria for the featherweight crown at UFC 308. Forward of this weekend’s showdown, ‘Blessed’ has mentioned ‘El Matador’ is making an attempt to repeat Conor McGregor.

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Hawaii’s ‘Blessed’ Max Holloway captured the UFC featherweight championship with a sequence of wins towards MMA legend Jose Aldo. He would lose this title over a trilogy towards prime pound-for-pound athlete Alexander Volkanovski. Alexander ‘The Nice’ misplaced his crown to the Georgia-Spanish fighter Ilia Topuria by means of knockout. Now, on October 26, Holloway appears to recapture his throne.

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Ilia Topuria making an attempt to repeat Conor McGregor

After a barrage of trash traded towards each other, Holloways claims that Topuria is making an attempt to repeat ‘The Infamous’ Conor McGregor. Whereas talking at a press convention, ‘Blessed’ defined:

“You gotta earn that proper [to point down to the canvas], I don’t suppose [Topuria] deserves that proper. You realize the man that he’s copycatting. This man is a copycat, all the way down to his tattoos, his aura, the best way he’s approaching fights. The man is a copycat, and your finest good friend’s [Conor McGregor] with the man he’s following.”

Reddit consumer Ido-Portal compiled the next picture to point out the comparability between Ilia Topuria and Conor McGregor.

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Discussing Conor McGregor, ‘El Matador’ can be doubtlessly taken with a match however the Irish athlete has not been lively. He defined:

“I wished it earlier than, however proper now he appears to be retired. For the way lengthy he didn’t combat? For 3 or 4 years? One thing like that … At this level, he doesn’t need to share the octagon with me. I’m the world champion. He was, however proper now he’s no one. He’s not even ranked… Proper now, Conor doesn’t symbolize anything than medication and alcohol.” [Ht MMAJunkie]

Much like McGregor, Topuria is seeking to retain his featherweight UFC world title after which bounce as much as light-weight to develop into a two-division champion. However earlier than he can look too far into the longer term, Topuria has a serious combat forward of him within the type of Max Holloway who’s simply coming off a knockout win towards Justin Gaethje.

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