Conor McGregor doesn’t have something good to say about reigning UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria.
The previous 145-pound king addressed Topuria throughout a dwell chat on Monday, with the Irish famous person erupting when requested for an opinion about him. McGregor likened Topuria to former pal and teammate Artem Lobov, who’s now concerned in a multi-million greenback lawsuit in opposition to him over earnings from the sale of his Correct 12 Irish whiskey.
“F*ck him, too,” McGregor mentioned of Topuria. “I don’t give a f*ck about him both. He jogs my memory of a bit of r*tard Artem Lobov. Topuria, [he] does, two little r*tards.”
So why doesn’t McGregor like Topuria very a lot?
Properly, it apparently comes all the way down to cash relatively than the spirit of competitors.
McGregor took challenge with Topuria turning into featherweight champion in February after which instantly speaking about his rising star energy. Topuria claimed that by 2025, he’ll turn out to be the best paid athlete on the planet.
McGregor, who truly held that spot in 2021 in response to Forbes Journal, mocked Topuria for that assertion and his misapprehension about making a listing like that in 2025 when the counting begins a 12 months earlier.
“I’ll inform you why I mentioned what I mentioned about him,” McGregor mentioned. “As a result of he’s speaking about, he’s going to be the best paid athlete in 2025. It’s 2024. It’s truly now. The 2025 highest paid athlete record begins proper now. The record got here out solely current and meaning he’s going to must rake in about $200, $300 million. Don’t be foolish, lad.
“It simply jogged my memory of Artem Lobov. Only a silly, little idiot. Speaking billions from a f*cking banger of a automobile. Thinks he is aware of all of it, he’s solely a bit of baldy idiot.”
Whereas Topuria has teased a doable transfer to light-weight, it’s virutally unimaginable that McGregor would ever entertain a return to his outdated stomping grounds at 145 kilos.
No matter weight class, McGregor doesn’t appear attention-grabbing in truly preventing Topuria as a result of the featherweight champ hasn’t completed sufficient but to earn that chance.
Actually, McGregor expects former foe Max Holloway to dispatch Topuria in the event that they meet in a matchup that’s at the moment being focused to happen someday earlier than the top of 2024.
“Holloway, too mild, too quick,” McGregor mentioned. “I feel Holloway picks him aside. In the event that they struggle. Holloway has completed it, he has that featherweight title. He’s had it for a very long time. He’s now the ‘BMF.’ Topuria, for me, is a non-champion in my view. He may need a strap nevertheless it’s a meaningless strap, in my view, as he holds it. I don’t see any attraction to it. What’s he Georgian? Spanish? What’s he? I don’t even know the place he’s.”
Greater than something, McGregor simply doesn’t perceive the attraction to Topuria in current months since turning into champion with a second-round knockout of Alexander Volkanovski.
“I don’t get the thrill with him,” McGregor mentioned. “There is no such thing as a buzz with him. He must maintain preventing. Topuria must maintain preventing.”
Despite the fact that he largely targeted his opinion on the present UFC champ at 145 kilos, McGregor didn’t have a lot variety to say in regards to the earlier individual to carry the title both.
“Ideas on Volkanovski?” McGregor mentioned. “No ideas. F*ck him too. I’d have kicked his head clear off his shoulders and that’s a truth.”
