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🌹😤 Movsar Evloev wants to go after Ilia Topuria to Lightweight division even if the title is not on the line.
☝️ Adds that it’s nothing personal, he just wants to prove that he is the best Featherweight since Ilia beat everyone.
🎥 @Home_of_Fight pic.twitter.com/qTHKtoQWYK— Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) March 3, 2025
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Movsar Evloev wants to prove himself against Ilia Topuria, regardless of whether there’s a title on the line.
Topuria won the featherweight title against Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 298 last year and defended it by knocking out Max Holloway for the very time in his career at UFC 308. While Evloev and Diego Lopes were the frontrunners for the next featherweight title shot, Topuria recently vacated the belt in favor of a move to lightweight. Lopes is now scheduled to fight Volkanovski for the vacant title at UFC 314 on April 12 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.
Meanwhile, Evloev has an unfulfilled desire to prove himself against Topuria. The undefeated Russian first wants to win the featherweight title and chase Topuria at lightweight. Evloev doesn’t even need the matchup to necessarily be a title fight.
“I’m making my bid for 155 pounds,” Evloev told Home of Fight. “But first of all, I need [the featherweight] title and then I will go after him… Not [lightweight] title necessarily but him… Because he beat almost everyone in featherweight division, so he is stronger than everybody here except me. And me and him only have question… So I will let people know who is the strongest featherweight even if we fight lightweight.”
Topuria has finished six of his eight UFC victories and every fight prior to that. Meanwhile, Evloev has often received criticsm for not finishing any of his nine UFC wins. However, the Russian does own wins over the likes of Dan Ige, Lopes, Arnold Allen and Aljamain Sterling.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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