Featherweight champion Ilia Topuria is in Sydney, Australia to corner his older brother Aleksandre Topuria who fights on the UFC 312 preliminary card on Saturday. While there, “El Matador” has been doing the media rounds. In an interview with Fox Sports Australia , Topuria stated that he’d go up to the lightweight division to face champion Islam Makhachev if the fight promotion would allow him to. “This is something that I want to do. The UFC knows that, but at the end of the day this is something that the UFC decides,” Topuria said. ”They know how to run the business
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Ilia Topuria: ‘I know I’m much better than Islam Makhachev’ – MMA Weekly