The times of Conor McGregor They were pure gold for the UFCmain mixed martial arts company in the world; However, as in everything in life, it is time to spend the page and the company of Dana White was looking for the fighter for a long time with the necessary potential, in every aspect, to replace the Irish.
The search, finally, seems to have come to an end. It was not just about finding a fighter with McGregor’s talent in his best moments in the octagon, when he became the first double champion of the company. In recent years, several gladiators have passed through the UFC with the same or even better tools than the controversial “notorious”. But their ability to connect with people and generate sales for the promoter have been incomparable.
There came the Georgian-Spanish Ilia Topuriawho this Saturday gave a fulminant knockout to the Brazilian Charles Oliveira in the ESTELAR EVENT OF UFC 157 from Las Vegas, Nevada, to become the new champion of the lightweight category of the company chaired by White.
Topuria, 28 years old and who left the Championship of the Pen Weight Division vacant to opt for the starting combat of this past sabatine evening, had predicted exactly what he did: a knockout before “Do Bronx” in the first assault.
According to reports from the Spanish press, the fight of the “Matador”, which was played near six in the morning in the European country, generated a hearing in the nation similar to that accompanied by Real Madrid, the world’s largest sports club.
In ascent
And little by little, Topuria has gained hobby in the United States, the main market of the UFC. After his Saturday victory, the fighter reached 10.7 million followers on Instagram, also becoming the active athlete of the company most often on the platform, in which he left behind the ex -monarch of the division of light weights, the Russian Islam Makhachev.
Likewise, Topuria also exceeded Makhachev in the libra ranking per pound of the company in the update on Tuesday, which appears as the new number one, ahead of the Russian and its Georgian compatriot Merab Dvalishvili, champion of the Gallo Pesos.
