Ilia Topuria doesn’t just talk. Ilia Topuria wins (14-0-0). Ilia Topuria executes. The ‘Matador’ promised to be world champion in the UFC and now nothing can prevent that dream from being real at featherweight. He knocked down Josh Emmett by points but after spectacular dominance, with very few mistakes, and reinforces his candidacy for monarch. Spanish sport continues to break borders thanks to the boy from Georgia. The sky is the limit.
“They’ll raise my fist at the end,” Emmett would say in the hours leading up. No, it wasn’t that ending. Topuria won with the cards but without leaving anything along the way, in a resounding message to the company. He took on a fighter, like Mitchell, and knocked him down. He touched a puncher, I dominated him from start to finish. Who’s next? Alexander Volkanovski, nothing prevents it anymore. “I’m the next man. I deserve it,” he said.
It’s my turn to fight for the belt, I’m next
Topuria accepted, in the first instance, the fight above. Hitting. Because the battle came out with Emmett wanting to be respected. Looking for his hands to enter, while Topuria kept calm. Good guard, without rushing. controlling. He entered his first hand after Emmett’s ruff, although perhaps fighting in the ‘mud’ with the Arizona man is not always good news. Despite this, read weaknesses with kicks to the legs and mastery of distances.
Topuria accelerates
In the second, more emotions. The Spanish right wing entered, and with the work of order came the first difficult moment. One counter tagged Emmett, who scrambled out of the corner. Not a slip intimidated Topuria, closing the fight with a great direct attack to the head. He was the boss in the octagon, for control and damage.
Emmett wasn’t making any assault clear. He punched up after the third, but nothing could be further from the truth. Topuria continued with his counter boxing, in which the left winger gave a hammer to the face of the fighter based in Sacramento. Without going through the ground, but solvent in all his combat strategy.
Until the time came. After touching, defending and going out of distance throughout the fight, he accelerated in the fourth. Emmett fell after a missile between the uppercut and the crochet, Topuria hit and despite the fact that the American got out of the first situation, the second almost left him causing the KO. Topuria stood on top and did not stop hitting. The bell prevented the end.
Volkanovski’s legacy has ended
Only a miracle could save Emmet, who came out to the final assault with what he had in his gloves. Topuria, always cold, dodged and compromised. She until she saw space and dove to the ground. He locked up five of the lists, she started the work on the floor despite not entering the triangles. I didn’t knock him out, there was no need. It was a message, only the bell prevented Emmett from being saved. Topuria had won. 50-44, 50-42 and 49-45. Unanimous decision. “I want Volkanovski to defend his belt and come here. His legacy has ended. Mine begins,” he sentenced.
