Ilia Topuria may have lost his UFC lightweight title to Justin Gaethje at UFC\u2019s White House event earlier this year, but \u201cEl Matador\u201d appears to be keeping the same confidence he had before the fight.<\/p>\n
It feels like it\u2019s been an eternity since fight fans last saw Topuria compete inside of the Octagon, but it\u2019s only been five months since the former UFC champion got a reality check by Gaethje on the White House lawn. Not only was it the first loss of Topuria\u2019s MMA career, but it happened on the biggest stage possible. That\u2019s not something that every fighter can recover from.<\/p>\n
Luckily for Topuria, his resolve is much stronger than some thought. The super-talented lightweight fighter was served a huge slice of humble pie in front the of millions, but his confidence doesn\u2019t appear to be wavering. In fact, Topuria refuses to believe that he can lose and made that clear in an exclusive interview earlier this week.<\/p>\n
\u201dI\u2019ve been in the worst situation a fighter can possibly be in. I\u2019ve experienced the worst day of my profession. What\u2019s worse than that? Dying.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut one thing is clear: you either win or you lose. And I lost. I wake up in the morning and look at myself in the mirror, and I\u2019m like: no, no, no, no, this isn\u2019t me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria may have lost his UFC lightweight title to Justin Gaethje at UFC\u2019s White House event earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":960432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-960431","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-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960431","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=960431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}