Ireland's McGregor is still the biggest star MMA has known, and the support of his home country helped vault him to superstardom early in his UFC run. Holding roots in Georgia and Spain, Topuria has ...

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White said current featherweight champion Ilia Topuria will vacate the title and move up to the lightweight division in pursuit of a world championship in a second weight class. There is no fight ...

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Ilia Topuria has officially vacated the UFC featherweight title after just over one year holding the gold, Dana White has announced. The UFC CEO took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to announce ...

Wedneday (19 February) brought the shock news that Ilia Topuria was dropping the belt, as he eyes a shot at lightweight champion Islam Makhachev. That move comes after just one title defence by ...

The biggest shock? Ilia Topuria, the No. 3 pound-for-pound fighter, is vacating his featherweight title. Topuria says he can’t make the weight anymore and is officially moving up to lightweight.

Ilia Topuria will bid to become a two-weight champion against Islam Makhachev later this year. The featherweight champion won his first belt by knocking out Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 298 last ...

Based in Rochester, England, Simon Head is a veteran sports editor who has covered sports for national and international outlets since 2000, and is one of the longest-tenured MMA journalists in ...

UFC president Dana White shocked the world Thursday night when he announced that UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria was vacating his belt and that former champion and No. 1-ranked contender ...