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Islam Makhachev sidelines Ilia Topuria’s double champ dreams, claims Featherweight king too fat to make weight

February 14, 2025
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UFC Featherweight kingpin Ilia Topuria has made his Lightweight intentions clear.

The timeline is shaky, but there is no doubt Topuria wants to jump to 155-pounds and challenge Lightweight roost-ruler Islam Makhachev at some point in the near future. Given the undefeated champion’s monstrous 2024, which involved knockout wins over Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway, he’s in a pretty good position to shoot his shot.

Makhachev has an alternative explanation for Topuria’s dreams of a second title. Per the Russian champion, Topuria is starting to struggle to make the Featherweight limit after gaining weight from “the good life” of being champion. Still, he’s open to the fight provided Topuria prove himself at Lightweight first.

“I heard he has problems cutting weight,” Makhachev explained. “That he can no longer fit into the limit of his weight class. He’s probably already gained fat from the good life, and he already wants to leave the belt and move up. But, I’m not going to give him the chance right away, because he hasn’t done all the work in his own weight class.

“He only has one defense. He has other contenders he should have beaten, but he doesn’t want to cut weight anymore. So let him move up, and when he earns his chance, we will definitely fight.”

There are definitely several intriguing options remaining for Topuria at Featherweight. He’s expected to rematch Volkanovski at some point in the next few months, but red-hot contenders Movsar Evloev and Diego Lopes would be very interesting challenges as well if he sticks around.

Makhachev remains unbooked as well. His next step is less clear after the Arman Tsarukyan debacle, but perhaps he chases a second title of his own?

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After the Jon Jones story yesterday, Adlan Amagov clips are hot right now.

I hope for “Shogun’s” sake that he is on every steroid known to man in the lead up to his GFl fight vs. Yoel Romero.

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Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling trilogy match is going down over on Russian TUF.

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Slips, rips, and KO clips

Can a Superman punch be low key? Apparently so!

Lifted the leg to check and stepped it down directly into a left hook, catching his opponent on one leg — nice!!!

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Sleep well Maniacs! More martial arts madness is always on the way.



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