Arman Tsarukyan and Ilia Topuria’s online back-and-forth continues. Now, Tsarukyan has called out Topuria once more, accusing him of looking for easy fights to defend his strap, before moving up to 170-pounds.
Tsarukyan believes Topuria can’t move up to welterweight to challenge champion Islam Makhachev presently, as ‘El Matador’ has not defended his lightweight belt even once. He, hence, wants the Georgian-Spaniard to defend his belt and be more active. Topuria last fought Charles Oliveira in June for the vacant strap.
In an interview with Ariel Helwani, ‘Ahalkalakets’ said this about the 155-pound champion:
“He’s [Ilia Topuria] trying to find easy fights and to defend that belt and go up, and UFC is trying to make him a superstar and defend the title.