Why is MMA Media advocating giving Topuria a Welterweight Titleshot even before he wins the Lightweight Title?

[methrogenn]

I have honestly not seen anything like this in my life, Topuria defended his featherweight title once & is being given a TS shot against a 36 year old Olivera who is 2-2 in his last 4 & wasn't even close to finishing Chandler coming off a 2 year lay off, someone who Paddy dominated soon after.

There are other contenders like Arman Tsarukyan waiting in the wing but everyone is hell bent on giving Pimblett the next TS, Paddy has straight up refused to fight Arman & Topuria has already called for a fight against Pimblett & says he doesn't want to fight Arman because Georgians & Armenians have a great relationship (lol). Meanwhile Ariel Helwani is hyping up Paddy vs Illia on a weekly basis.

If this wasn't ridiculous enough pretty much the entirety of MMA media from Helwani, Luke Thomas, Brian Campbell, MMA Junkie guys, WOW Media (Spanish promotion journalists), Submission Radio are already campaigning for Topuria to go up to Welterweight after fighting Paddy.

I'm not saying this is going to happen but I have never seen the entire media landscape come together to make sure a fighter speed runs the UFC.

Alot of people are trying to compare his rise to Conor but people need to realise that Illia is no where near to Conors popularity, infact, Illia is not even the biggest star in the UFC right now.

If you compare Google/YT/Twitter trends, both Alex Perira & Islam Makhachev tower over Illia Topuria & it's not even close worldwide. As per the metrics over the last 12 months Perira is by far the most popular UFC fighter worldwide followed by Makhachev then Chimaev. Illia despite his hype hasn't even passed a retired Conor McGregor & Khabib Nurmagomedov in worldwide trends in the last 12 months.

Illia obviously playing it extremely smart, bro attends press conferences on a weekly basis at his own promotion talking about himself instead of the fighters on the card.

 

[jeskola]

Topuria vs Aspinall

 

[Goat Poster]

Islam ducked the 2nd biggest fight in the sport. Of course people are gonna talk about it happening at 170.

If it happens at 170 for the triple belt possibility for me it is the biggest fight you can make right now and the most significant ever in the history of the sport. It would be the biggest achievment ever.

Also it's not like Topuria himself hasn't talked about going to 170. Of course people are gonna discuss if the biggest fight ever is 2 wins away from happening. Why not? Let us have fun.

 

[Hymen Crusher]

Arman missed weight he can eat dicks

 

[xhaydenx]

Because the WW belt, like the LW belt, is inevitable.

ToppyGOAT will probably snatch up the MW belt at some point as well.

You can't stop something that can't be stopped.

 

[tritestill]

They're all hype idiots

 

[RockyLockridge]

You can't stop something that can't be stopped.

Deep. You can only prolong the inevitable

 

[MRT]

I'm certainly not optimistic it will happen, but the best case scenario would be Charles and JDM both winning...hopefully it would put the brakes on all this 'double champ' bullshit.

 

[AL-Tappo McSnappo]

JDM should say no. After all, being expected to fight only 4 months after winning his last fight is heresy, and no champion should be expected to compete in that amount of time.

I have honestly not seen anything like this in my life, Topuria defended his featherweight title once & is being given a TS shot against a 36 year old Olivera who is 2-2 in his last 4 & wasn't even close to finishing Chandler coming off a 2 year lay off, someone who Paddy dominated soon after.

There are other contenders like Arman Tsarukyan waiting in the wing but everyone is hell bent on giving Pimblett the next TS, Paddy has straight up refused to fight Arman & Topuria has already called for a fight against Pimblett & says he doesn't want to fight Arman because Georgians & Armenians have a great relationship (lol). Meanwhile Ariel Helwani is hyping up Paddy vs Illia on a weekly basis.

If this wasn't ridiculous enough pretty much the entirety of MMA media from Helwani, Luke Thomas, Brian Campbell, MMA Junkie guys, WOW Media (Spanish promotion journalists), Submission Radio are already campaigning for Topuria to go up to Welterweight after fighting Paddy.

I'm not saying this is going to happen but I have never seen the entire media landscape come together to make sure a fighter speed runs the UFC.

Alot of people are trying to compare his rise to Conor but people need to realise that Illia is no where near to Conors popularity, infact, Illia is not even the biggest star in the UFC right now.

If you compare Google/YT/Twitter trends, both Alex Perira & Islam Makhachev tower over Illia Topuria & it's not even close worldwide. As per the metrics over the last 12 months Perira is by far the most popular UFC fighter worldwide followed by Makhachev then Chimaev. Illia despite his hype hasn't even passed a retired Conor McGregor & Khabib Nurmagomedov in worldwide trends in the last 12 months.

Illia obviously playing it extremely smart, bro attends press conferences on a weekly basis at his own promotion talking about himself instead of the fighters on the card.

Islam ducked the 2nd biggest fight in the sport. Of course people are gonna talk about it happening at 170.

If it happens at 170 for the triple belt possibility for me it is the biggest fight you can make right now and the most significant ever in the history of the sport. It would be the biggest achievment ever.

Also it's not like Topuria himself hasn't talked about going to 170. Of course people are gonna discuss if the biggest fight ever is 2 wins away from happening. Why not? Let us have fun.

they love midgets, and hate Islam lol, let them suffer, Islam will destroy their dreams.

 

[dipstickjimmy]

Topuria vs Aspinall

As long as it is for the Undisputed and not another Defense of the Interim HW belt I am 100% on board.

 

[BroScienceTalkatWork]

It'd be some. Manny Pacqiauo shit. And I don't even think Manny moved that aggressively

 

[BroScienceTalkatWork]

Because the WW belt, like the LW belt, is inevitable.

ToppyGOAT will probably snatch up the MW belt at some point as well.

You can't stop something that can't be stopped.

I want to see the Trenporia storyline play out. If he fights Welterweight, I will purchase the PPV. Middleweight, I will go see it in person

 

[Thy]

2025, the year mma broke.

 

[Jinx_AA]

Ilia vs arman for number one contender while Islam fights jack as he deserves his double chance

No vacating

No permanent move to ww

Ilia vs arman is the best number one contender fight ufc could possibly make

Islam MIGHT beat jdm … but he ain’t holding that belt and dominating that division …

 

[Dr Fong]

MMA media is trash catering to trash. Whatever generates clicks is what forms their opinions.

They generally follow the sport like professional wrestling marks. They are interested in storylines and drama, not good fights that make sense. Because most of their halfwit audience does too.

So we have people discussing a guy who has had one 155 fight against a nobody, in which he got dropped, as 170 champion. Because there are no serious people with self-respect in the MMA media space.