Topuria weighed in at 167.2 on fight day

[Goat Poster]

Vs Volk

Weigh-in day: 144.5
Fight night: 167.2
Gain: 16 percent

It's insane that he looked so small in there vs Max, presumably he fought at a similar weight. Paulo Costa cut the same % of body weight and looks huge for his weightclass...

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Rambling a bit on what comes next...
I would like to see Ilia try to become double champ but Islam seems to cut an even more insane amount of weight whitout any issues it's kind of unfair. Islam turned 33 today, let him make at least one more cut and see what happens....

Topuria should also fight his next fight above 145 and get some more experience. All the names at 155 or 165 are huge, Paddy or Chandler/Oliveira for the interim, Dustin or Mcgregor/Diaz/Masvidal at 165 and all these fights do much, much better than any fight at 145. Even if Topuria loses badly in half of these he still gets bigger anyway and if he loses but does good in the other half he still gets bigger and maybe has a huge rematch.

In a vacuum the fight I would most want to see Topuria take next is Lopes. The huge problem with that is that you miss out on Volk vs Lopes and the Topuria money fight at the same time. Volk deserves to fight for the interim but he can't really fight vs the only undefeated champ coming of 3 straight losses, 2 by knockout. I just hope they don't feed Volk to Topuria whitout him winning at least a fight before. That's all I ask,...

 

[Fight Professor]

That's a beefy manlet. But Max is around 190 lbs between fights.

 

[markantony20]

The main thing in the Islam fight is answering if Ilia’s wrestling really is legit.

I understand he has a Greco background but he started training that in Germany which doesn’t have a very notable wrestling scene and lives in Spain which is similar.

I understand he’s Georgian and those guys can wrassl but is it enough to stop Islam who has been wresting in the Mecca of grappling since childhood?

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Fascinating, I wonder how much all this yo yo weight drop and weight gain affects your health in the long run.

 

[J'Ghasta]

Max's weight bullying finally caught up with him

 

[usernamee]

All the weight is added back onto his fists giving him immense amounts of power

 

[Rapa]

I understand he has a Greco background but he started training that in Germany which doesn’t have a very notable wrestling scene and lives in Spain which is similar.

Get ur fights right he was wrestling in georgia and we have one of the best wrestling shcool in the world (check )

 

[Brigfa2]

Nah he is too small for Islam

 

[Tweak896]

Max cuts so much weight he should move to LW. Topuria seems comfortable to do both weight classes.

 

[Rio Ferdinand]

Those hands were heavyweights though.

 

[HuskySamoan]

You guys are morons when it comes to size. The amount of density and thickness Ilia has on Max is considerable. Max is a small 155er, the dudes got a very thin, narrow frame he's just tall...tall doesn't mean bigger, it's like saying a rectangle that's vertical is bigger than a rectangle horizontal. Ilia doesn't look huge at 145, Max never did to me either though, but Ilia is dense as fuck, muscular, thick and shredded.

 

[rightfight777]

Let's fix the system so these weight bullies are not always given an unfair advantage. Weigh in on fight day.

 

[Wreckless]

That's a beefy manlet. But Max is around 190 lbs between fights.

Bro calm down. 180 at most. He was 173 when they called him up to fight Khabib when he was chilling and out of camp.

 

[bigfootsbreath]

That's a beefy manlet. But Max is around 190 lbs between fights.

Who gives a shit about that? In between fight or walking around weight is one of the most stupidest returdedest things ever. Mighty Mouse going obese and walking around 220lbs don't mean dude should be fight at MW or WW. Wish the UFC had the balls to start measuring body fat %. Like take the body fat % when they sign the fight, then a week before the fight, then right after they make weight. Then in the locker room right before they do their walk out to the cage. Only then will we see who are the real weight bullies.

 

[El Fernas]

167lbs in cage sounds like a big weight cut, we´ll see how he does when he fights at 155lbs.

Who gives a shit about that? In between fight or walking around weight is one of the most stupidest returdedest things ever. Mighty Mouse going obese and walking around 220lbs don't mean dude should be fight at MW or WW. Wish the UFC had the balls to start measuring body fat %. Like take the body fat % when they sign the fight, then a week before the fight, then right after they make weight. Then in the locker room right before they do their walk out to the cage. Only then will we see who are the real weight bullies.

Just following CSAC weigh-in rules for every card would be fine, then again, the UFC doesnt care about that, they put fights, if a guy misses weight and fight is still on it doesnt affect them, even if a fight gets canceled only a super high profile fight could hurt them financially with people asking for refunds or some PPV loss, but for the most part the UFC has nothing to gain or any interest in that, its up to the AC´s and well, only 1 cares, sort of, cause they do fookin nothing if someone breaks their rules.

 

[JBJ was here]

167lbs in cage sounds like a big weight cut, we´ll see how he does when he fights at 155lbs.

When he fights at 155 he'll probably weigh 172-175 in the cage. Maybe a little extra muscle--although he obviously doesn't need that--but mostly he'll just diet down to where he has an easy water cut rather than dieting down as much as possible.