Ilia Topuria believes his famed knockout energy can be greater than sufficient to deal with Terence Crawford.
Crawford already has an enormous combat lined up as he takes on Canelo Alvarez in a boxing superfight this Saturday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. The matchup sees the undefeated Crawford (41-0) transfer up in weight to tackle the legendary Canelo (63-2-2), with Alvarez’s undisputed tremendous middleweight championship on the road.
Topuria lately accomplished his personal profitable division change. The previous featherweight champion vacated his 145-pound belt to maneuver as much as 155 kilos, the place he knocked out Charles Oliveira at UFC 317 to seize a vacant light-weight title.
Now, Topuria is setting his sights on Crawford.
“I received’t speak about what would occur between me and Crawford in an octagon,” Topuria wrote on Twitter. “I’ll speak about what would occur in a hoop. I put him to sleep within the first contact!”
Although Topuria’s boast may appear excessive, “El Matador” has no scarcity of highlight-reel finishes to his title. He captured the featherweight title with a surprising second-round knockout of Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 298, making him the one man to defeat Volkanovski in a 145-pound contest. Then he adopted up by knockout out Max Holloway at UFC 308, the primary time Holloway had ever been completed through strikes.
At UFC 317, Topuria scored arguably his most spectacular knockout but when he put Oliveira down in underneath two and a half minutes.
Topuria is but to e-book his first light-weight title protection, however seems to already be angling for a crossover bout with Crawford. On Saturday, he posted a picture of him assembly Crawford, together with the caption, “Who wins in a combat?”
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