It’s been a protracted arduous street to the highest, and Ilia Topuria want to thank the one who was instrumental in getting him there: Ilia Topuria.
The UFC featherweight champion wrote a glowing love letter to himself on Instagram, and we gotta say this isn’t going to assist his status amongst critics who assume “El Matador” is a bit of stuffed with himself for somebody who hasn’t defended their belt but.
“At present I need to categorical my gratitude to this particular person for offering me with every thing I’ve,” he wrote in Spanish. “For supporting me to resist any circumstance and for by no means dropping religion in God and within the attraction of all good issues to me. All the time counting on me and giving me the life I now take pleasure in.”
“I need to thank myself for all of the instances I’ve revered myself, liked myself, forgiven myself. Lengthy reside the Matador that lives inside me!”
“I’ll all the time be proud and with a smile on my face, remembering all that I’ve completed,” he completed with the hashtag #FighterForever.
Topuria has good purpose to be proud: he did what lots of the finest featherweights on the earth tried to do however failed — he beat Alexander Volkanovski through violent KO. That was in February, and we’re nonetheless ready for information on when the German-born Georgian fighter will compete once more. Will it’s a rematch in opposition to Volkanovski? Or will it’s Max Holloway after “Blessed” stole the present at UFC 300?
Both combat might be a troublesome time for the rising star, who has been embraced whole-heartedly by Spanish soccer royalty. Thankfully, he has Ilia Topuria to depend on, and that’s all he must be profitable even in opposition to the hardest of odds.
