“Ilia Topuria, I would say with him, stay out of boxing range one million percent stay out of boxing range. He's got the best boxing in the business in MMA. He's got it so much that he even thinks he can be [Terence] Crawford. You'd need to work your kicks angles with him, knees, Muay Thai would be some a good specialty.”

“He's got decent wrestling. From people I've spoken to that have trained with him, he's got this decent jiu-jitsu also. So, he's almost the complete package, but he's not. He lacks the kicking area. So, the weakest link on him would be the kicking area. And then you have to test your grappling with him to see if your if yours is better than his. We've yet to see how great it is. It's not great.”

“His father was to me one of the greatest trainers of all time and he had the great mindset... He had no striking per se, but he had great ground, great judo, great sambo and in jiu-jitsu... And he was super successful with it, and his students are the ones that are now becoming the champions. Most of what he [Khabib] got, he got from his father, and I added the little special touches. So, in other words... I made the house really pretty, but that the framework was there and that was [his] father. - via KnowTime podcast”

“Movsar, look at him, they are passing him up because not that many people are interested to see him, even though he deserves it. He is number one in my opinion, but is he getting it? How come Sean O’Malley got title shots after lacklustre performance? Now, I would think that he is going back to the drawing boards, cause again, the eyeballs are not going on him. So his marketability is not there anymore-via Know Time podcast”

“When he gets in there with Islam you're going to find out a whole different story.”

“When he gets in there with Islam you're going to find out a whole different story.”