Ilia Topuria Destroys Charles Oliveira In 90 Seconds And Gets Face-To-Face With Paddy The Baddy

What a fucking night of fights. Between the amazing finishes on the prelims, the fight of the year contender in Van/Royval, and the unbelievably dominant performances from both champs in the main/co-main event, I think it’s safe to say this International Fight Week card lived up to the hype. I HATE that part of that comes at the expense of Charles Oliveira - by way of an absolutely ruthless knockout - but you can’t deny that Ilia Topuria is on a very special, all time run right now. Beating Holloway, Volk, and Charles in a row is just fucking nuts. He’s mowing through a murderer’s row of the most likable fighters in history and seemingly nobody can stop him (for now).

After that quick knockout, he called out Paddy the Baddy, who he referred to as a “blonde bitch”; and Paddy got in the octagon for a staredown that will almost definitely lead up to a massive title fight between them, legitimately YEARS in the making. Paddy dwarfed him, too - probably explaining that shove from Ilia. He's overcompensating already! 

Seriously tho - that fight/build is going to be insanely big. I can't wait. They might do the full press conference world tour with em! And Justin Gaethje is gonna crash out when Paddy gets that matchup before him, I just know it.

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