UFC Lightweight shares an unexpected taking on the shooting of the title Ilia Topuria

Beneil Dariush approves that hea Topuria gets an immediate title shot on light weight.

Topuria (16-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) left her featherweight belt UFC after admitting that the weight cut was too intense. “El Matador” is considering a fight for the title against the light champion Islam Makhachev.

Although he defended his title only once with a KO of Max Holloway at the UFC 308, Dariush (22-6-1 MMA, 16-6 UFC) sees no one else in the image of the light title as more worthy for the moment.

“You can’t really disagree with that,” Dariush told MMA Junkie. “Because he became champion, he defended his belt, and he is just like:” Hey, I’m too big. I don’t want to make the weight cut, so I want to fight ’55 ‘. I would not be against him to fight for 155, especially since the UFC said that they would not have allowed Arman (Tsarukyan) to fight for the title.

“So, if Arman does not obtain the title, Charles Oliveira – I understand that he is supposed to be candidate n ° 1, but I would say that Ilia’s references are better at the moment. He rides the sequence of victories enough, so I would certainly not be like: “Oh, it’s a mistake. They shouldn’t have this fight. “”

Dariush can see where Makhachev (27-1 MMA, 16-1 UFC) comes from when he says he does not want to fight another featherweight with Topuria, but says that this time, it’s a little different.

“I think the situation is the following, I don’t think Makhachev really wants to fight another” 45 “,” continued Dariush. “He fought (Alexander) Volkanovski because he wanted to be book champion for book because at that time, Volkanovski was. He beat Volkanovski so he is in a way more than I would say.

“He doesn’t really want to fight 145 others. But, the difference is now, Ilia goes up and it is a real 55’er. He did not back down to 145. All you need is that Makhachev agrees. If Makhachev agrees to fight it, I think the fight occurs