Ilia Topuria has solely had a number of in-person encounters with Conor McGregor they usually creep him out to this present day.
In a resurfaced clip from an look on The Wild Undertaking podcast, Topuria described the vibe he obtained from McGregor once they had been each preventing on the identical card at UFC 264. Ilia would win his battle in opposition to Ryan Corridor by devastating first spherical knockout. McGregor would break his leg in half preventing Dustin Poirier, and nonetheless hasn’t fought once more three and a half years later.
“Tremendous dangerous vibes,” Topuria stated flatly when requested to explain McGregor.
Ilia Topuria says that Conor McGregor has “horrible vitality” and “his aura comes straight from HELL”
“I need to be away from this dude, he has a black vitality, I by no means felt that earlier than”pic.twitter.com/DOfoQbXF1d
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“Look, analyzing folks as human beings, let’s have a look at Conor,” he continued. “A man, his spouse, his youngsters, his household. I can’t give an opinion. I don’t understand how these individuals are. He may be a superb individual and I perceived his vitality differently from what it’s. He merely got here to work, placed on a present.”
“However the feeling I had when he was round was, ‘Hold him away!’ Hold him away. Since you might be Conor McGregor and act nonetheless you need, however nobody is above me, solely God, you recognize what I’m saying? Congratulations in your profession, I respect it. However don’t inform me a factor as a result of I’ll take your head off.”
“Only a horrible vitality,” Topuria reiterated. “I swear it felt like his aura got here from hell. I wished to be away from this dude, he had a black vitality I’ve by no means felt earlier than. Agustin, my coach, he’s a really non secular man. He’s very cautious with the energies. He stated, ‘This dude is gonna lose badly and break up.’ He broke his leg that evening.”
“He introduced an vitality of hell, you recognize what I’m saying?”
McGregor got here into his second battle with Dustin Poirier all smiles and cheer, solely to endure his first profession knockout by the hands of “Diamond.” So he got here into UFC 264 in full psychological warfare mode, however his assaults on Poirier (and Poirier’s household) didn’t really feel witty or sharp. The entire thing simply felt darkish, and clearly Topuria might really feel the energetic stink strains coming off McGregor as the 2 encountered one another on the fighter resort and weigh-ins.
Topuria’s opinion of McGregor has solely dropped since then, and “El Matador” has known as “The Infamous” a mentally damaged b—h who betrayed the values of martial arts. Them’s preventing phrases, however sadly it looks like McGregor is angling to battle Jake or Logan Paul, not Ilia Topuria. That about strains up with our expectations of the Irish sports activities star nowadays, which is unhappy.