Movsar Evloev needs to go after Ilia
Topuria to Light-weight division even when the title will not be on the
line.
Provides that it is nothing private, he simply needs to show that he
is the very best Featherweight since Ilia beat everybody.@Home_of_Fight
pic.twitter.com/qTHKtoQWYK— House of Combat (@Home_of_Fight)
March 3, 2025
Movsar
Evloev needs to show himself in opposition to Ilia
Topuria, no matter whether or not there’s a title on the road.
Topuria received the featherweight title in opposition to Alexander
Volkanovski at UFC 298 final yr and defended it by knocking
out Max
Holloway for the very time in his profession at UFC 308. Whereas
Evloev and Diego Lopes
have been the frontrunners for the following featherweight title shot,
Topuria lately vacated the belt in favor of a transfer to
light-weight. Lopes is now scheduled to battle Volkanovski for the
vacant title at UFC
314 on April 12 on the Kaseya Middle in Miami, Florida.
In the meantime, Evloev has an unfulfilled want to show himself
in opposition to Topuria. The undefeated Russian first needs to win the
featherweight title and chase Topuria at light-weight. Evloev
doesn’t even want the matchup to essentially be a title battle.
“I’m making my bid for 155 kilos,” Evloev advised House of Combat. “However
to begin with, I would like [the featherweight] title after which I’ll go
after him… Not [lightweight] title essentially however him… As a result of he
beat virtually everybody in featherweight division, so he’s stronger
than everyone right here besides me. And me and him solely have query…
So I’ll let folks know who’s the strongest featherweight even
if we battle light-weight.”
Topuria has completed six of his eight UFC victories and each battle
previous to that. In the meantime, Evloev has usually obtained criticsm for
not ending any of his 9 UFC wins. Nevertheless, the Russian does
personal wins over the likes of Dan Ige, Lopes,
Arnold
Allen and Aljamain
Sterling.
