{"id":117681,"date":"2025-09-03T21:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117681\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:21:06","slug":"usman-nurmagomedov-disagrees-with-ilia-topuria-being-seen-as-1-lightweight-in-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117681\/","title":{"rendered":"Usman Nurmagomedov disagrees with Ilia Topuria being seen as #1 lightweight in MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nurmagomedov questions Topuria as #1 lightweight in MMA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to put myself [at top] in lightweight because Islam is still in lightweight,\u201d Nurmagomedov told MMA Fighting. \u201cHe\u2019s not moving. After he [moves], then we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome on, Ilia Topuria, how he can be lightweight No. 1 in the world? He cannot be,\u201d Nurmagomedov said. \u201cHe did only one fight. I have 19 fights in lightweight [division]. I beat former champions. I beat champions. I think my resume is better than him. How many fights does he have? 14? I have 14 finishes in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter I finish this guy [Paul Hughes], I will call myself the best lightweight,\u201d Nurmagomedov said.<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/pfl\/401202\/usman-nurmagomedov-scoffs-at-ilia-topuria-as-the-no-1-lightweight-come-on-he-did-only-one-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MMA Fighting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you believe that Ilia Topuria is the best lightweight fighter on the planet right now? If so what would Usman Nurmagomedov need to do in order to jump ahead of him in the pecking order? Let us know your thoughts on this and Usman\u2019s career as a whole, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nurmagomedov questions Topuria as #1 lightweight in MMA \u201cI don\u2019t want to put myself [at top] in lightweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-117681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}