Ilia Topuria is one of the biggest icons in the UFC today and Spain’s leading representative in the sport. After winning in February against Volkanovski in the featherweight title fight and defending it masterfully in October against Holloway, whom he knocked out in the third round. Since the Spanish-Georgian was crowned as the absolute winner of the category, he has challenged Connor McGregor on several occasions to fight him
This possibility has been generating a lot of excitement in the UFC world and even more so after the cross-statements that both have been exchanging in recent months. McGregor is considered one of the greatest legends of MMA, someone who, according to Topuria in Jordi Wild’s Podcast in an interview back in 2023, gave off bad vibes from the first moment he saw him.
A strange feeling
“It gave me super bad vibes. Analyzing people as human beings, I can’t comment, I don’t know what a human being is like. Maybe he is an excellent person and I had a perception of his energy completely different from what he is. The feeling he gave me was an aura of hell. Of not wanting to be close to him,” Topuria explained to Jordi Wild on his podcast
The feeling it gave me was an aura of hell. Of not wanting to be near him
Topuria sobre McGregor
Far from all of this, the Spanish-Georgian’s coach Agustin Climent, made an assumption that ended up coming true. “Agustin, who is quite spiritual and controls energies and vibrations, told me ‘this guy is going to lose ugly’. And he broke his leg,” concluded Topuria, a curious anecdote about one of the times he saw Conor McGregor in person