Ilia Topuria will take his first steps within the UFC’s light-weight fold this summer time — however towards who must be confirmed.
Talking on the UFC 315 pre-fight press convention in Montreal late on Thursday, UFC boss Dana White mentioned that former featherweight champion Topuria will struggle both light-weight champion Islam Makhachev or former champ Charles Oliviera in his 155-pound debut.
And what’s fascinating is that the identification of Topuria’s opponent will solely be confirmed after this weekend’s UFC 315 principal occasion between welterweight champion Belal Muhammad and Jack Della Maddalena.
Talking to Spanish media this week, as famous by MMA Combating, Topuria said that his subsequent bout will come towards both Makhachev or Oliveira. Basically, if Della Maddalena wins the title bout this weekend he’ll seemingly subsequent face Makhachev who will transfer up from 155-pounds, leaving Topuria to struggle Oliveira.
Conversely, if Muhammad — a detailed good friend of Makhachev — wins, he Topuria will as a substitute struggle the Russian champion and go away Muhammad to defend his crown towards the subsequent man up at 170-pounds.
“Yeah, there’s plenty of shifting components proper now and yeah, that’s fairly correct,” White instructed the media of the aforementioned plan.
Try the complete press convention, which additionally featured a number of different UFC 315 principal card fighters, within the video under:
