If the UFC supplied Ilia Topuria a struggle with Conor McGregor in his first struggle since vacating the featherweight title, Topuria would take it for certain.
“I feel he’s going to return again,” Topuria stated on the Joe Rogan Expertise. “In the event that they make it possible to guys at, what, 40 years previous like [Andrei] Arlovski, you may have so many names who struggle at 40 years previous. Why not Conor? …
“Truly, we had the talks [about a fight],” Topuria continued. “I don’t know. I do that one, then I’m going to get some calls. You understand how the UFC is: They’re very particular, ‘Don’t say something to nobody.’
“But when they provide me a struggle towards Conor proper now, I’ll say why not? Why not? I wouldn’t say no. … That might be an awesome one. …
“[If he had a full fight camp], it will rely on who he would face [in return fight], as a result of when you put him towards me, he must die and be born once more.”
After all, Topuria would like to get a right away shot at Islam Makhachev and the UFC light-weight title, which is a struggle many followers are desirous about. However there are such a lot of unknowns with the state of light-weight, the expertise on the prime, and whether or not or not Makhachev will stay within the division.
So if it’s not a title struggle, and it’s not Makhachev, Topuria would like to face his previous rival Paddy Pimblett after Pimblett destroyed Michael Chandler within the co-main occasion of UFC 314.
“What excites me extra is the struggle with Paddy.” Topuria defined. “That struggle excites me much more [than a fight with Conor], and if they will put that struggle in Spain, on the Bernabéu Stadium [it would be huge].
“I do know that Dana doesn’t wish to put the occasions in a stadium, however that’s the one stadium on the earth that they will shut the roof. [They can fit] 80,000 [people]… and lots of people can journey from England to Spain, and that occurs fairly often. …
“That will likely be a large one, in Spain, towards that pimple?”
