WOW press conference<\/a>, Topuria\u2019s Spanish MMA promotion, the UFC lightweight champ hit back at Crawford\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen you want to test your technique, your skills, here I am,\u201d Topuria said. \u201cBecause lately, it bothers me that there are many boxers that come out, and interfere with our game. They criticize us and try to put us down. But the truth is, there have been many MMA fighters to go to boxing and test their skills.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I don\u2019t know any of the boxers who talk so much, actually test themselves in MMA. Anyone who wants to, I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a follow-up question from a reporter, Topuria was pressed about his interest in moving to boxing at some point in his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah that\u2019s a goal of mine, so I would love to do it,\u201d Topuria answered. \u201cAnd if it\u2019s against someone like Crawford, much better. But first he still has the [Canelo Alvarez] fight to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Topuria knocked out Charles Oliveira for the then-vacant UFC lightweight belt at UFC 317 in June. In a response to a question at the press conference referenced above, Topuria wasn\u2019t specific on who he\u2019ll face for his first lightweight title defense.<\/p>\n
Topuria and Crawford are undoubtedly two of the biggest stars in combat sports today. Depending on their upcoming fights, the two stars could potentially be on a collision course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria responded to Terence Crawford\u2019s latest remarks about a potential future crossover fight. Tensions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,27974,716,101,9553,715,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-133851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ilia-topuria","10":"tag-mma","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-terence-crawford","13":"tag-ufc","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}