From throwing bottles to each other in hotellobbies to bitter back and forth reports on social media, Ilia Topuria and Paddy Pimblett have a legendary history.
But given the often chaotic nature of such rivalry in the UFC, the origin of their intense feud through cannot be translated in translation.
During a recent appearance on the entire podcast, the Spanish-georgic sensation Ilia Topuria explained exactly why he has such strong feelings of resentment towards the scouse-falling.
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Ilia Topuria explains his intense feud with paddy 'The Baddy' Pimblett
At a certain moment of the interview at full shipping, the conversation shifted to the star power of Ilia Topuria and how it has grown exponentially in recent years; Compared to the star force of Paddy Pimblett.
“In the beginning his hype was like – at the moment he had a lot of hype, this and that, but [in terms of] Quality of the hunter he is – man, come on, please. Don't even compare me with that wanderer because we are at different levels.
“Everyone can see that now, we are at different levels,” the 16-0 phenomenon claimed before we revealed what happened to spawn such a bitter rivalry.
“He was very disrespectful for me, for my country, and all my people, he just behaved like an idiot. He started talking about the war we had against Russia.
“He said something like” now I understand why the Russian put the bombs in Georgia ” – and many children died in that war, many people died in that war … If you start jokes about things like that, just make sure there are Before we are looking for each other nowhere, because I am going to go.
According to Topuria, Pimblett tries to build his hype by trolling and “laughing at people”, while he is looking for his UFC star power through Highlight-Reel-Stop settings.
Yet he has no problem dealing with Pimblett, and notes that it is real in my case.
“I had press conferences where I was respectful for my opponents because they were respectful to me. But when they tried to go in a different way – Bro, I am never looking for a problem, but when a problem comes to me, I say no problem. “
Huge UFC announcements made for both Ilia Topuria and Paddy Pimblett
Last night Dana White went to Instagram to announce various huge pieces of fighting news – two of them include 'El Matador' and 'The Baddy'.
According to White, Ilia Topuria has officially left its UFC -Fedweight title and will now go to lightweight, with rumors that are a potential confrontation against Islam Makhakev.
The vacant featherweight title is for the taking in the main event of UFC 314 when former champion Alexander Volkanovski is confronted with Brazilian Diego Lopes.
For the scouse -super star, his return to the Octagon has also been confirmed for that UFC 314 card in April -Pimblett will compete against the American Power Puncher, Michael Chandler.
“I want to fight in Miami and then Abu Dhabi in October, that's the plan,” he said on a recent vlog shared via his YouTube channel.
“I hope I can get it. Defeat this opponent, a top eight opponent, defeated someone in the top four or top five and then fight for the [UFC lightweight] belt.”
UFC 314 is planned for April 12 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.
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