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Conor McGregor isn't one to shy away from tossing words and pinpointing people - especially on Twitter. His most recent target was the featherweight champion Ilia Topuria. A fan mentioned the possibility of Ilia Topuria moving up to welterweight and McGregor slashed that with a tweet.
Ilia Topuria gives Conor McGregor ‘vibes’ - the confidence, speaking authoritativeness and natural charisma makes people believe that Topuria is the new generation Conor McGregor. The whole idea of seeing the featherweight champion jumping up weights stemmed from the heated back and forth conversation between Belal Muhammad and Ilia Topuria. Islam Makhachev also mentioned the featherweight champions name a few times.
Never, he has the balls of a kitten. https://t.co/2v3XVXRJet
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) December 20, 2024If Conor McGregor could do it in the UFC, then perhaps anyone could do it. It will be very interesting to see Topuria secure bigger feats in his thriving UFC career. It's worth highlighting how other fighters apart from McGregor feel the same about Topuria's aspirations. Dan Hooker shares the same opinion.
Justin Gaethje, Korean Zombie, Dustin Poirier and many more couldn't do that to Max Holloway.
Calling special is an understatementpic.twitter.com/MCCitpc6gx
Dan Hooker on the featherweight champions lightweight/welterweight plans
Top lightweight contender Dan Hooker justifies why Ilia won't move up to 155.
Dan Hooker doesn't think Ilia will actually move up to 155:
"It's pretty evident he's just working off McGregor's playbook. Line 1 of McGregor's playbook is 'Keep Your Name in Headlines'...
The guy doesn't fight that often. I think he just fights Volk sometime next… pic.twitter.com/I7plhiGlM4
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