The psychological war between Ilia Topuria and Conor McGregor it seems not to come to an end. Although the Hispanic-Georgian is in the last days of preparation for his fight against Max Holloway on October 26 at UFC 308, he still has time to maintain the dialectical fight with the great star of UFC. In his last scuffle on networks, They have exchanged insults and the featherweight champion has called McGregor a “fake fighter” in response to a post in which he sided with Holloway and claimed that the Hawaiian improved a lot after losing to him.
‘El Matador’ barely took a few hours to respond to the Irishman. “100% Max has improved after fighting you. He must have realized that if he wanted to do this for a living, he couldn’t be bad enough to lose to someone like you. Nowadays it beats you easily”explains Topuria in his response. ‘The Notorious’ defeated Holloway by unanimous decision in August 2013, in what was McGregor’s second fight in the UFC.
100% Max has improved after fighting you. He must have realized that if he wanted to make a living from this, he couldn’t be so bad as to lose someone like you. Nowadays, he beats you easily. Dustin knocked you out in the rematches, Nate beat you twice, Khabib humiliated… https://t.co/OpKVqL4gqM
— Ilia Topuria (@Topuriailia) October 16, 2024
Subsequently, the Spanish-Georgian reviewed the Irishman’s failures. “Dustin (Poirier) knocked you out in rematches, Nate (Diaz) beat you twice, Khabib (Nurmagomedov) humiliated you and Floyd (Mayweather) gave you a boxing masterclass at 50 years old. Take a seat, boy. You are a fake fighter“, sentence.
After Topuria’s response, McGregor posted several photos to demonstrate the similarity of the tattoos of both fighters to end up calling him “Retarded fan”. The conversation has been deleted by the Irishman.
Sparring partner
Ilia Topuria also had some words for McGregor during his recent interview on The Ariel Helwani Show. The journalist specialized in MMA He asked the featherweight champion about the possibility of a confrontation with ‘The Notorious’, however, ‘El Matador’ flatly denied that this fight was going to take place at this time. “I’m a world champion and he’s not even ranked anymore”said Topuria.
Although he seems unwilling to fight him in a UFC octagon, Topuria did “invite” the Irishman to spar with him at their next training camp.
