🚨 Ilia Topuria says that once he became UFC champion, he felt an “emptiness” instead of happiness:
“Hours later, everything that had existed in my imagination for so many years became real. I won by knockout. I became world champion.
I had reached the summit of that mountain, and for much of my life I had believed that when I got there, I would feel something like permanent happiness.
When you are a child, you imagine that is how it works. You think that one day you will have the things you want—the belt,the money, the house, the cars, the freedom, the recognition—and then something inside you will say, “That’s it. I did it. Now I’m happy.”
But the morning after I became world champion, I opened my eyes and discovered something I had not expected. The first question that came into my mind was very simple:
“What now?”
I had spent so many years chasing that moment that I had never thought very much about what existed beyond it. I felt something like an emptiness—not because I was ungrateful, or because winning the championship did not mean an enormous amount to me, but because I discovered that no result, however great, can fill you forever.”
via @Topuriailia
‼️Ilia Topuria has written an essay about his career and loss to Justin Gaethje on his own website
“I do not want anyone to see me as a man who never falls, because thatwould be a lie. I want them to see a man who can be knocked to the ground and who keeps making the same decision to get back up.
I do not know what my next fight will look like, and I cannot promise any result. But I can promise something that depends entirely on me: you will not see me stop trying”
😯🚔 Former UFC bantamweight Marlon Moraes is now a cop in South Florida
After a traffic stop, this man asked Moraes: ‘What are you gonna do? You can’t do sh*t’
He stepped towards Moraes, and Moraes floored him with ease 👏
King Green says he’s made OVER $1.2 MILLION in less than a year with his last 4 UFC fights 👀💰
“I’ve already fought 4x in the last year. They think I made $300,000 [each fight]. I made more than that.”
Khamzat Chimaev met Real American Freestyle CEO Chad Bronstein backstage at the wrestlers’ hotel in Moscow, where Borz arrived for media week ahead of the RAF Moscow event this Saturday 🤼♂️
🚨 Khamzat Chimaev says Islam Makhachev would have FINISHED Ian Machado Garry at lightweight:
💬 “If they had fought at 70kg, Islam would have finished him.”
Khamzat also says Islam did exactly what he expected against the taller, tougher Garry.
#UFC#MMA
@francis_ngannou@ArbMMA Bro you thirties were absolutely perfect.
You became world heavyweight champion in the @ufc .
You made tons of money
“You fooled the @PFLMMA 🤭🫣”
You had an amazing thirties Bro 👊🏻
🚨Nassourdine Imavov says he already knows the date for his fight against Sean Strickland, and it will be announced soon. 👀
🗣“I know the date and I've known it for a little while now”
📽 Via (@RMCSportCombat)🔹️
They won’t be happy until you lose in this sport. The Floyd Mayweather effect is real for Team Khabib… most watch to see them win but the loud few watch to see them lose
Full @akajav interview: https://t.co/plN4wJdGiU @WeighingIn