Amid claims he’s weighing up a light-weight transfer in his return, Ilia Topuria has been urged to honor a struggle with Alexander Volkanovski at first by Dan Hooker — who labelled the unbeaten featherweight champion a “d*ckhead” for looking for a approach out of the rematch.
Topuria, the present undisputed featherweight champion, retained his title for the primary time again in October within the headliner of UFC 308, taking out former champion, Max Holloway with a hellacious third spherical knockout of their grudge struggle in Abu Dhabi.
As for Hooker, the Metropolis Kickboxing star has been lined up for a large struggle in his return to motion — probably versus former interim champion, Justin Gaethje — having turned in his third straight at UFC 305 again in August with a call success in opposition to Mateusz Gamrot.
Ilia Topuria ripped for eyeing light-weight transfer by Dan Hooker
Nonetheless, amid claims he would welcome a light-weight transfer in pursuit of a title eliminator in opposition to former gold holder, Charles Oliveira, Georgian-Spaniard knockout ace, Topuria has been advised to neglect a few 155lbs leap in the interim.
“Simply basic sh*t,” Dan Hooker stated throughout an interview with Submission Radio. “It’s fairly evident that he’s simply working off (Conor) McGregor’s playbook and line one in all McGregor’s playbook is rather like maintain your identify within the headlines. So, like, that’s all that I sort of see from it’s (Ilia) Topuria holding his identify in headlines. The man doesn’t struggle that always. I feel he simply fights Volk someday subsequent 12 months, March, April.”
“Bro, properly then don’t get within the f*cking cage with him (Alexander Volkanovski) and conform to struggle him, d*ckhead,” Dan Hooker stated . “You let him get within the cage, you had a face-off with him, and also you stated you’d struggle him. Bro, man to man, that’s that. You’ve agreed, you already agreed to a struggle. How are you going to again out of it now?”
