social media,<\/a> Kawa told Abdelaziz he needs to chill with his bold predictions.<\/p>\n\u201cYou\u2019ve got this guy, he\u2019s sitting there with two of his clients, and one of them happens to be [Kamaru] Usman,\u201d Kawa said. \u201cThey\u2019re sitting there talking about his next opponent, \u2018Oh yeah, he would beat this guy, he would beat that guy\u2019 and \u2018He will do this and he will do that.\u2019 Guy, shut the f*ck up. Ilia Topuria would f*cking annihilate 100 percent of your roster, including\u2014if he fought Gaethje again\u2014he would f*cking beat the shit out of him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all know that Ilia was better. He had a bad night. Your boy did good, congratulations. Stop hyping up the other shit. You sound like a f*cking clown. Ilia Topuria is still, in my book, the No. 1 fighter in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gaethje defeated Topuria in a dramatic battle at UFC White House this past June, when Gaethje put on a virtuoso performance and left Topuria unable to answer the bell for the fifth round. Since then, Gaethje and his team are waiting patiently as they look ahead to what\u2019s next for what could be the final fight of his career, while Topuria has taken time off to heal from facial injuries suffered in the loss.<\/p>\n
When Topuria comes back, Kawa is confident he\u2019ll remind everyone why he\u2019s been considered one of the top 3 Pound-for-Pound fighters in recent years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI promise you guys, when the comeback comes, you will see what happens,\u201d Kawa said. \u201cPaddy Pimblett, f*cking Islam, Usman [Nurmagomedov], f*cking Gaethje, it doesn\u2019t matter who. It doesn\u2019t matter when. You guys will see a f*cking masterclass, that\u2019s what that is.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut to sit here as an agent on the podcast of your clients and be like, \u2018Oh yeah, you\u2019re going to actually lose to this guy,\u2018 because behind the scenes, you don\u2019t want that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria\u2019s manager Malki Kawa isn\u2019t taking Ali Abdelaziz\u2019s latest boast lying down. Kawa took aim at his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849396,"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-849395","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\/849395","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=849395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}