“Makhachev has only one game, he’s going to clinch you and take you down and Topuria is a fighter with a lot of power, not because he knocked me out, that was the hardest punch I ever felt.”

– via FlexCidine, providing a high stakes breakdown of a potential superfight between Islam Makhachev and Ilia Topuria.

“I’ve never seen his ground or clinch work. If they stay on their feet, I think he [Ilia] knocks him out. If Islam gets hold of him, he’ll finish him. I think it’s very, very close but for Islam to get hold of him, he has to close the distance first which is dangerous fighting Ilia”

– via FlexCidine, providing a high stakes breakdown of a potential superfight between Islam Makhachev and Ilia Topuria.