Islam Makhachev’s coach Javier Mendez has given his ideas on Ilia Topuria’s large defeat at UFC Freedom 250 final weekend.
Final Sunday, Ilia Topuria fell to his first skilled loss in blended martial arts by the hands of Justin Gaethje. It was a fairly emphatic defeat, and though Ilia actually had his moments, which included almost stopping Gaethje within the second spherical, it was in the end a poor exhibiting for somebody who we’ve got come to anticipate excellence from.
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One chance for Topuria if he had wound up successful would have been a superfight in opposition to Islam Makhachev, seemingly up at welterweight the place he’s the present champion. The 2 have been going forwards and backwards at each other for fairly a while, however now, it feels unlikely that we’ll ever see it.
In a current interview, Makhachev’s coach Javier Mendez touched on each Topuria’s loss and the opportunity of a battle in opposition to Conor McGregor.
Mendez’s view on Topuria’s title defeat
“I’m not dissatisfied in any respect,” Mendez instructed Submission Radio. “It’s in God’s plans. We simply associate with no matter God plans for us to do, and it simply means we transfer on ahead. Let’s face it, Islam Makhachev has loads of challengers within the welterweight division. We didn’t want Topuria for Islam to vault himself to a different stage.”
“Perhaps if that Irish man (Conor McGregor) could determine, if he’s victorious on July 11, why not? He’s up for the problem, so we’d be up for the problem,” Mendez mentioned.
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