DeepCut<\/a> and was asked who would be on his Mount Rushmore, and started off the list with former heavyweight and light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. The list continues with Georges St-Pierre, who held titles at welterweight and middleweight, and Conor McGregor, who like himself won the featherweight and lightweight belts. Middleweight\u2019s most dominant champion Anderson Silva completes the list.<\/p>\n\u201cBones\u201d Jones returns to the discussion when Topuria is asked to build the perfect fighter. Not only for his fighting IQ, Topuria selects Jones as the best striking.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019m going to tell you why I would say Jon Jones,\u201d Topuria explains. \u201cMaybe he doesn\u2019t have that frequency of punches and all that, but every time he throws something he protects himself, he knows when to throw a punch. Like, he has a great IQ. That\u2019s why I would say that I would choose his striking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Topuria was ont he fence between past foe Charles Oliveira and retired fighter Demian Maia for the grappling department, and did not hesitate to select Merab Dvalishvili\u2019s cardio.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember the last time when he came to my house, we did, I don\u2019t know, 10 or 12 rounds,\u201d Topuria said. \u201cAnd I was like, listen, guy, leave me alone, I don\u2019t want to do anything else. And he was trying to do more rounds and he ended up doing, I don\u2019t know, 35 or 30 rounds. He doesn\u2019t get tired. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s running or what it is, but he\u2019s built different.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for the boxing, Topuria named veterans from the sport, including Darren Till, and went on to include his brother Aleksandre Topuria, who is 7-1 in the sport and 2-0 so far in the UFC with wins over Colby Thicknesse and Bekzat Almakhan.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not anymore a UFC fighter,\u201d Topuria said of Till, \u201cbut his boxing actually was good. And I think that at this point he\u2019s fighting in boxing. Conor was also a good boxer. Petr Yan. And of course my brother. I know how he box. And for me, he\u2019s the best boxer in the UFC right now because I know his level, I know his skills, his technique, everything. I would say that he\u2019s one of the best boxers in the UFC right now. Maybe people don\u2019t know a lot about him, but with time, they\u2019re gonna know it. It\u2019s coming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria\u2019s list for four all-time best fighters in UFC history includes three men that have won belts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-706639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706639","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=706639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}