Ilia Topuria has an idea that the UFC would help to prevent fighters from cutting enormous amounts of weight.
The former Feederweight Champion recently handed over his belt and announced a switch to the lightweight division, although he is only 5ft 7 in and will be one of the smaller men in the division.
Ilia Topuria claims that the UFC bosses have promised him an immediate title shot, but now he believes that King Islam Makhachev of 155 pounds will fight after Joe Rogan suggested that Dana White thinks about matching the Russian with Welterweight Belal Muhammad.
Nevertheless, 'La Leyenda' has offered the UFC a practical solution for a problem that MMA has plagued for years.
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Ilia Topuria's plan to eliminate cutting the weight
In the days before their fighting, many UFC stars dry themselves to reduce an exorbitant amount of weight and to achieve a competitive advantage compared to their opponent, who almost always does the same.
It is not an aspect of the sport that Topuria enjoys, which is why he decided to go up a weight class.
Now he has called on the UFC to introduce a new system that fighters would stop who cut too much weight.
“If you walk around 8% or 10% around your weight, I would oblige you to go up the weight class,” Topuria said during a recent appearance on Rogan's podcast.
'To give you an example, if you fight with 100 kg [220lbs] And I go to your house, I put you on the scale and you weigh 110 kg [242lbs]I would force you to go to the next weight class. '
Joe Rogan hates the weight of the weight
Rogan hates the weight of the weight famous, so he did not respond surprisingly well to the idea of Topuria.
In January he threw his own plan to bring about a revolution in MMA and to remove the 'worst aspect of the sport'.
“I think weight movement should be eliminated,” Rogan explained. I told Ari Emanuel this [CEO of Endeavor] When they first bought the UFC. I said: 'Listen, man, do you know what to do? Get rid of weight movement, just stop.
“Look, if you can randomly test people for drugs, you can randomly test their weight. Come on a scale, say. Do something like that.
“And come with more weight classes. There should be a weight class every 10 pounds. This idea of these gigantic holes such as 185 to 205, that's a gap of 20 pounds, that's huge! That doesn't exist in boxing. You have gigantic guys who can't fight the UFC because the weight limit 265.”
“It is just like taking steroids from fighting. It is punished. Instead of having weight, you just discover what the champion weighs. Don't relax from the championship belts. Discover what Islam Makhachev weighs. Islam Makhachev is a UFC champion, what weighs as a healthy-for-fond?”
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