{"id":143386,"date":"2025-09-14T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143386\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:56:07","slug":"whenever-you-want-ilia-topuria-doubles-down-on-terence-crawford-callout-after-boxer-uses-his-walkout-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143386\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Whenever you want\u2019: Ilia Topuria doubles down on Terence Crawford callout after boxer uses his walkout song \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ilia Topuria probably won\u2019t get his wish but he\u2019s doubling down on his callout to fight Terence Crawford, especially after he walked out to the same song used by the UFC lightweight champion prior to his win over Canelo Alvarez on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As he marched to the ring prior to a stunning 12-round win over Alvarez on Saturday, Crawford used the track Canci\u00f3n del mariachi from actor Antonio Banderas and the band Los Lobos, which was made famous in his 1995 film Desperado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFirst he calls me drunk\u2026 then he walks out to MY song,\u201d Topuria wrote on Twitter. \u201cCrawford, whenever you want, I\u2019ll teach you how to dance that mariachi in the ring. And Canelo, I\u2019ll save you a round after him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Topuria has repeatedly talked about his desire to crossover from MMA to boxing much like Conor McGregor did for his 2017 fight against Floyd Mayweather. While that experiment ended with McGregor suffering a 10th round knockout, he still gained an incredible amount of publicity not to mention a nine-figure payday for his efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ever since that fight ended, UFC CEO Dana White has scoffed at allowing another fighter to try their hand at boxing but Topuria believes he\u2019s in a unique position to change his mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dIt\u2019s something I want to do, and I don\u2019t think [Dana] will tell me he doesn\u2019t want to help me achieve my dream&#8230; I\u2019ll have his support, I have no doubt about that,\u201d Topuria said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChampRDS\/status\/1967021806755152352\" rel=\"nofollow\">during an appearance at WOW FC<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019ll take some convincing, but I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll work out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While it seems highly unlikely Topuria ever gets the chance, he\u2019s certainly got the starpower behind him to at least make that request. Topuria has quickly become one of the most talked about fighters in the world, not to mention his climb up the pound-for-pound rankings after capturing UFC titles at both 145 and 155 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria probably won\u2019t get his wish but he\u2019s doubling down on his callout to fight Terence Crawford,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,1347,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-143386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}