{"id":154995,"date":"2025-09-19T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154995\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:24:10","slug":"ilia-topuria-strongly-advised-not-to-pursue-boxing-match-with-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154995\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria strongly advised not to pursue boxing match with Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ilia Topuria has been calling for a showdown with boxing great<\/a> Terence Crawford, but one UFC fighter doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea.<\/p>\n

Topuria has certainly seen his stock soar thanks to stellar performances against Alexander Volkanovski, Max Holloway, and Charles Oliveira. \u201cEl Matador\u201d is a former UFC featherweight titleholder, who vacated the gold to eventually capture the lightweight championship. Many believe Topuria has taken a page out of Conor McGregor\u2019s playbook, and his callout of \u201cBud\u201d Crawford is an example of that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Topuria has expressed confidence in his ability to upset the newly minted undisputed super middleweight champion in a boxing ring, Michael Chiesa told MMAJunkie.com<\/a> that he is not a fan of the fantasy matchup.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d Chiesa said. \u201cWe lost Conor McGregor after the Floyd Mayweather fight. That\u2019s not the goal with Zuffa boxing. Essentially, that would be if we pulled Topuria up into that space, that would mean that that\u2019s part of their MO. Look, anything could happen. Floyd is different from Crawford in the sense that \u2013 I\u2019m not saying Crawford doesn\u2019t know how to promote a fight, but Floyd was a master at that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was good at taking jabs, poking fun, kind of selling his brand a little bit. \u2018Bud\u2019 sells his brand because he can downright fight. He\u2019s just damn good, and Floyd was as well. And Ilia\u2019s not a Conor. That was such a one of one type thing. That was peak Conor McGregor trash talk. That was the ultimate. That was so much fun, and I\u2019m not saying Topuria is not fun, he just doesn\u2019t have that sharp tongue like Conor had. To make that fight happen, it takes two fighters from two different worlds that are saying the things that gets everybody\u2019s attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

UFC CEO Dana White has made it clear that he doesn\u2019t want his fighters dabbling into the sweet science. White made one exception back in 2017 to help set the stage for Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor. Despite trying to have a more firm grasp of boxing promotion these days, White hasn\u2019t changed his stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria has been calling for a showdown with boxing great Terence Crawford, but one UFC fighter doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-154995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154995","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=154995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}