Following his recent welterweight title win, fans have continued to call for an excellent fight between Islam Makhachev and Ilia Topuria.
Just over per week ago, Islam Makhachev became the most recent fighter to win a title in a second weight class when he dominated Jack Della Maddalena within the UFC 322 primary event to win the welterweight title.
Despite taking up one other division, fans have continued to call for a fight between Makhachev and the recently crowned lightweight champion, Ilia Topuria.
And following the Russian’s win, Topuria reacted by labeling his performance as ‘boring’ continuing their bitter feud.
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Makhachev reveals issue that might prevent Topuria fight
Makhachev was all the time considered quite a giant lightweight and so it got here as no surprise when he announced he was moving as much as 170lbs.
Nevertheless, despite having moved up in weight, the 34-year-old has remained open to a possible clash against ‘El Matador’ especially because the Spaniard has continued to assert he would move as much as 170lbs for it.
A big majority of the UFC fanbase, though, would love for the fight to happen at 155lbs as it might be a much fairer matchup.
Unfortunately, though, Makhachev has detailed the problem surrounding that, potentially stating that he won’t ever move back right down to lightweight.
“It will should be a superb offer for me to start out cutting back to 155lbs, because I’m not young on this sport anymore, and each weight cut takes years off your health, it’s not as easy as before to chop weight,” he said in a recent media scrum.
At this point, it seems as if a fight between Makhachev and Topuria is getting further away as an alternative of getting closer, especially considering the indisputable fact that each fighters have multiple option for title defenses in their very own divisions.
Who will Makhachev and Topuria fight next?
With each fighters having only just moved to their latest divisions, they each have several latest matchups that might happen.
Following Arman Tsarukyan‘s impressive win over Dan Hooker at UFC Qatar this past Saturday, the Armenian must have easily secured himself primary contender status, and he and Topuria kicked off a feud following his win.
Who should get the subsequent lightweight title shot?
Makhachev then again has just a few more exciting options in what’s a stacked welterweight division. Ian Machado Garry is hoping that following his win over Belal Muhammad, he has cemented himself as the subsequent title challenger.
Nevertheless, the Russian champion made it clear that he would love to fight Kamaru Usman next, despite Usman’s recent regression in the game.