Dan Hooker doubts UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria strikes as much as light-weight.
Topuria (16-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) teased a possible transfer as much as 155 kilos after scoring back-to-back knockouts of Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway. Topuria’s coach cited his weight reduce as the principle cause for the specified transfer.
Nevertheless, Hooker doesn’t suppose Topuria adjustments weight lessons. He in contrast his method to Conor McGregor’s.
“Basic sh*t,” Hooker instructed Submission Radio. “It’s fairly evident that he’s simply working off of McGregor’s playbook. Line 1 in McGregor’s playbook is to maintain your title within the headlines. That’s all that I form of see from it, is Topuria retaining his title within the headlines. The man doesn’t struggle that always. I feel he simply fights Volk someday subsequent yr, March or April.”
After turning into the primary to knock out Holloway this previous October at UFC 308, Topuria welcomed a rematch with Volkanovski. Hooker ripped Topuria for considering a change of plans after agreeing to struggle his Metropolis Kickboxing teammate.
“Don’t get within the f*cking cage with him and conform to struggle him then, d*ckhead,” Hooker mentioned. “You let him get within the cage, you had a faceoff with him, and also you mentioned you’d struggle him, man to man? That’s that: You’ve already agreed to a struggle, and the way are you going to again out of it now?”
Hooker (24-12 MMA, 14-8 UFC) is again within the higher echelon of the UFC light-weight division after three-straight wins over Claudio Puelles, Jalin Turner, and most not too long ago Mateusz Gamrot at UFC 305.
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