Nine more days UFC 308 And long awaited Topuria vs Holloway, The ‘Matador’ (already in Abu Dhabi since last Saturday) is conducting his final interviews with the American press… and dropping several interesting headlines.
For example, in a discussion with journalist Kevin Aiol, he talked about a current issue: how to deal with the Hispanic-Georgian conflict. He and his team always wanted to defeat Holloway in their main weapon, striking. Beat him on ‘his’ field. Thus they overthrow Volkanovsky and destroy Emmett.
However, just in case, Topuria has a secret weapon that doesn’t show its full potential: its ground game.
And he explained it this way: “I don’t want to take all the credit from Max Holloway because he’s shown that he’s a very good fighter with a lot of experience and he’s come back. But at the same time, it’s because he’s never faced someone like me. If I knock him down, if that happens, I’ll beat him.” If not knocked out first, I don’t think he can stop my submissions. Trust me, I’m very, very good on the ground… I think I’m even better at striking. “People never, ever, saw my ground game because I didn’t need it in my UFC career.”
If I take him down, if that happens, I don’t think he’ll be able to stop my submissions if I don’t knock him out first. Trust me, I am very, very good on the field…
The featherweight champion is more confident than ever in his weapons and ability 26-7 to finish Holloway coming into this fight. Topuria, meanwhile, was undefeated. And he continues to go 16-0.
