Media Dana: "OTHER Possibilities" W/ Ilia Topuria THAN Fight vs Islam

[Black9]

Who will he fight?


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[Blanqa Blanqua]

Who will he fight?


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Thx,
be interesting to see what plays out.
Crazy times.

 

[STAY GOLD]

Charles Oliveira.

 

[Thesnake101]

Clay Guida

 

[ookii]

Didnt he say he wanted to beat the piss out of Paddy so maybe feed him to Topur?

 

[usernamee]

Conor at 170

 

[hbombbisping]

It's Arman. This has been circulating. Tough fight.

 

[IneedSometop]

Charles or Arman is my money with whoever Illia isn't fighting getting the next title shot

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

Conor at 170

I'd love to see Toppy maul Conor and send him to the shadow realm.

But he did say he has no interest in fighting or doing business with a rapist (answering about Conor specifically)

 

[LincolnHawk1]

Ilia arman is the fight to make. If they make any other fight for him it should be vs olivera.

 

[fortheo]

Arman, Charles, or Poirier

 

[tritestill]

Arman should get title shot, but his back ya know. Ilia should get it, but wouldn't mind him fighting Charles. Think him vs Dustin makes no sense, but style wise that's the easiest of the three for Ilia. Legit only Arman has a shot of beating Ilia tbh.

 

[r-harper-1]

Topuria vs Dustin or Charles would be fun

Arman fairly blah

 

[nostradumbass]

I would imagine Arman is most likely if they don't give Ilia a title shot, since it would help sell a fight with Islam no matter who wins. Dana said they aren't giving Arman a shot again immediately after turning it down then pulling out the day before, so it would give him a chance to prove he can make the weight, or Ilia can prove he can handle a bigger wrestler or his punching power holds up against top LWs.

Timing works out ok too. If they announce it soon, it'll still be over a year between fights for Arman, and 7-8 months for Ilia depending on what card they put it on, while Islam just fought last month, so they could potentially put it on 315 which currently needs another big fight, then announce the title shot for the winner there for an August card, which would still only be 7 months between fights for Islam. Arman doesn't really have anyone else available.

 

[Hank Grill]

Illia vs Sean Strickland for the interim 170 lb title.

 

[CobraCobretti]

Should have been Pimbletch but they decided to give Chandler one more shot for the title.

 

[7 others]

Really intriguing situation and kudos for Ilia to vacate his belt

Either opponents at LW.. would be entertaining as hell

Charles, arman, Dustin, Justin etc

 

[andgonsil]

Conor

 

[Steve Fox]

Conor

My guy, I have thought about this. Agree.
That's a payday worthy of vacating a belt.

 

[FrappeDuRocma]

Arman vs Islam.

Topuria vs Charles/Poirier.