{"id":411781,"date":"2026-01-15T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/411781\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:50:08","slug":"ufc-not-going-to-strip-ilia-topuria-of-lightweight-tile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/411781\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC \u2018not going to strip\u2019 Ilia Topuria of lightweight tile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI can tell you from a very reliable source that the UFC is not going to strip Ilia, they will give him all the time he needs,\u201d ESPN\u2019s Carlos Contreras Legaspi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8eo-Cu11uow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Alvaro Colmenero<\/a>. \u201cIf it is necessary to defend an interim position for some reason, which I hope not, they will let him do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe situation has been taken very well by the people at the UFC,\u201d Legaspi added (transcribed by <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2026\/01\/15\/justin-gaethjes-hopes-ruined-by-report-revealing-ufcs-stance-on-ilia-topurias-title-reign-and-time-off\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>). \u201cThey have a lot of faith in the star status that Topuria has today. So for those who are thinking that something strange could happen, I see it as very unlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 28 year-old Topuria (17-0) is going through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/412817\/false-headline-ufc-champion-ilia-topuria-denies-being-summoned-to-testify-in-domestic-violence-case\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a public (and somewhat messy) divorce<\/a> and could find himself sidelined for the rest of the year as they battle for custody of their daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI can tell you from a very reliable source that the UFC is not going to strip Ilia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,153471,139445,702],"class_list":["post-411781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-324","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411781","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=411781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}