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February 8, 2024 14 mins

Ilia Topuria is CONFIDENT he's knocking out and defeating Alexander Volkanovski, and he's not holding back! Daniel Cormier is BACK ahead of what promises to be a must-watch PPV fight at UFC 298 between Topuria and Volkanovski. DC breaks down his top fight of 2024, and lets us know why Topuria IS EXACTLY what could give Volk issues. Plus, Cormier REACTS to the news that Volkanovski was drinking every day leading up to the Islam Makhachev fight. And don't miss Cormier compare this matchup to the first time he fought Jon Jones. 

3:40 - Volkanovski vs. Topuria
5:35 - Is Alexander Volkanovski ready for Ilia?
7:25 - SO MUCH PRESSURE on Topuria
10:00 - "I was Ilia Topuria" vs. Jon Jones
12:30 - Volkanovski drinking before Islam KO
14:15 - Topuria vs. Volk is "the BEST fight"

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All right, guys, what's going on? So it feels like

(02:14):
we haven't talked. So I obviously did the fights, so
I talked to you or at you, but I haven't
had a chance to talk to you. So as I'm
sitting here still waiting for the main event of UFC
three hundred, which, if I'm being completely honest, I.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Have a pretty good idea of what it is.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I am just not going to tell you because then
I'll get in trouble. You know, you know the whole thing, right,
lose your job, lose your money. I don't want to
do that, as I would expect you not to want
to do that for me either, But.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I still love you. But I still love you.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Here's what I've been thinking though. When the UFC three
hundred main event is announced, is it gonna be better
than a fight that has already been announced? And only
he continues to build as we get closer, at least
in my opinion. I have multiple group messages. I have
group messages with boxers, I have group messages with football players,

(03:13):
I have group messages with basketball players, and I have
group messages with just my friends and family who love
mixed martial arts. And it feels universal, universal that they
are most excited about one fight. And when I first

(03:33):
heard that that was the fight that they all loved
so much, I didn't quite know if I agree, But
now I do, because when you look deeper into it,
how could you not be excited? So for me, it's
Illiot to Pooria and Alexander Volkanowski. But for those guys,
I think that they are intrigued by a few things.

(03:56):
One Iliot to Poorious see seems to be a guy
that would have a great style to match up against
Alexander Volkanowski. Granted, we have said that time and time again,
and we have only seen Volkanowski make really good fighters
look human seem to a time and time again. To
the best fighters in the world, he makes them look

(04:18):
like their average. But there is something about Taporia that
makes people general fans go, this guy has the feel
of someone that is very dangerous to a long igning
undisputed greatest featherweight champion of all time. That's one factor.

(04:40):
The second factor is what does Alexander Volkanowski look like?
After the fight with Islamahatchev or the two fights with Islamahatchev, people.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Ten are seen to believe that.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
The quick turnaround, which wasn't as quick as alex wanted,
is still too soon. I mean, those guys fighting a
couple of weeks. I think, is it maybe next week
or in two weeks? I'm not sure, but many feel
like it's still too fast, even though it was November

(05:22):
December January three months.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
It is pretty fast. Islam said it in the cage.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
He goes, now this guy can go into a training
camp and get ready to fight, because you know, he
knew he couldn't fight him on short notice. People seem
to think that there will be lasting effects on Voke
because of the way he lost and the mental challenges
that comes with being that guy and then getting stopped

(05:47):
in the way that he did. You don't know how
that affects a person, if you ask me, I believe
that Alexander Volkanowski will be the same guy. But even
if he's that same guy, is that enough to beat
this guy in Tapouria who doesn't seem to have many
weaknesses at all. Third factor, and it will be my factor.

(06:12):
My excitement is for all the stuff surrounding it, right,
So it's a part of well, it's gonna be the
same guy after what happened, But I like all the
other stuff that's happening right now. I Saw's girlfriend. Let
me pull this up on my phone. So Ilia's girlfriend says,

(06:33):
if one needs to die in there, it's not gonna
be my guy one. I would have encouraged my significant
other to not.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Say that publicly, but what's wrong with a woman standing
behind their guy.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
I don't hate that Ian Gary's wife supports them publicly,
so many judging for that when in reality, that's what
they're supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Right. You are in the most dangerous job in the world.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
If you can't find that comfort there, how can you
find that comfort on your way to the octagon? And
then other people when the person closes to you doesn't
have your back in that way. I would have encouraged
that not to happen publicly because only because.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
I'm the one that has to answer for that right.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
So while the support is great, you are the one
that has to go out there and back.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Up those words.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Here's the deal. Though Elliot Topoya does not seem to
have a problem with it, it seems like all he
wants to do is put pressure on himself. This dude
has now said that he is releasing a movie on
becoming the champion of the world. This dude has updated
his bio with another win and he's now the UFC

(07:46):
featherweight Champion. This dude has stated he wants to fight
in the same stadium the Better Baio. I think it's
called I don't know pronounce that right, where Real Madrid
plays football in Spain. This dude has said to anyone

(08:07):
that will listen, how Alexander Volkanowski cannot compete with him.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Most people.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Under these circumstances want to release the pressure. Not this dude,
from his girlfriend to his words to his team. You know,
this reminds me of Connor.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
About to fight Jose Aldo. He told you, and he
was so sure.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
That he was gonna get it done that you knew
that if it happened, he would become a star that
we had never seen in the UFC before or in fighting.
So when it happened, he went to the moon. I
feel like Illiot Taporia is setting himself up to have
that type of a cent if he can deliver on

(09:03):
all the promises that he is making. I remember being
Illio to Pooria as a young undefeated fighter. I wasn't
young as he is young in the game, but an
undefeated fighter going up against fighting one of the greatest
champions of all time. And I swear it. Maybe I
didn't say it publicly, I felt the same way. I

(09:24):
felt that there.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Was no way that Jones could compete with me.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Why, because all I had seen inside the octagon is dominance.
I had not lost a round, I had not lost
to anyone. People really couldn't compete with me. I was
just dominating dude, So I figured the same thing would
happen when I went in there with John Jones, and
it didn't. Eliot to Pooria, for his part, though has
had adversity a little bit, not much, but he has

(09:50):
had to deal with some things. But what happens to
Ilia when Alexander Volkanowski comes on? When Alexander Volkanowski starts
to become Alexander Volkanowski, the guy that we all know,
the guy that blanked Max Holloway in the third fight,
the guy that made the Korean zombie look like he
didn't belong in the octagon with him, the guy that

(10:10):
made Yaya Rodriguez fall over after putting so much damage
and discouraging to the point that Yah hear realized, I
can't beat this man. What happens then? What happens to
that young Spaniard, the guy with all the arrogance and
the confidence.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
That is what makes a great fight because there are.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
So many questions that surrounded because if this dude can't
do what he's saying, he's going to do, the Pooria
is going to be a star in a country that
loves to support loves to support.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Ireland. A fraction of the size of Spain. I believe.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Now, I'm not great geography, but can't imagine Ireland is
bigger than Spain.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Luis, I would like you to tell me if that's
true or.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Not, but I can't imagine he would have that country
behind him and they would come and droves. I have
watched soccer matches or football games and I see how
they support them.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Imagine one of their roles. Yeah, Spain is seven times
the size of Ireland and they will support Thank you, Luis.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
But I mean, we are talking about the greatest featherweight
champion of all time, and I know that Alexander Volkanowski
and Eugene Berman and his other coaches, they will all
have him so prepared.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
That he will be looking to really prove a point. Now.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
One of the other things that have been going on
is people mad at Volkanowski because of what they all excuses.
Volk released the statement earlier in the week saying that
he was drinking every day before he fought Islam and
he wasn't ready and all these other things, and they
say they love the other Volkanowski more. This is the

(12:16):
group of friends that you guys know, Jamel, Terry Craig,
Jamil yeah, I got a friend name. I got a
nephew named Jamel and a friend named Jamil, and they're
both in a group message.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
They like the other Volkanowski.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
They like the guy that right after the fight just said, yeah,
you know, it is what it is. They don't like
the guy that says months afterwards and I was drinking
every day.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
But that speaks to what Volk was saying.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
I'm not myself when I don't have something to chase.
I gotta be honest. I figured, you know, sure, dude
has a couple of drinks.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Everybody, we all do. But to hear that he was
saying he was doing it every.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Day was surprising to me because to me, I look
at Alexander Vulcan as a cyborg, always focused, always on
his a straight and direct path, And now we know
that that wasn't the case. He had lost a fight,
he didn't have anything scheduled yet. I don't believe that's
how we dealt with it right through that. But this

(13:18):
time he didn't have that opportunity, He did not have
that chance to wallow.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
In his sorrows. He immediately got a fight and he
got back to training. He got his purpose.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
We all know what Alexander Volklanowski with purpose looks like,
but it seems as though he finally has a challenger
that carries that same level of purpose and that same
level of confidence, with the idea that he's going to
be the greatest in the world with no doubt.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's the fight.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
And I know there's Gai chie or he announce I'm sorry,
there's Gaichie versus Holloway announced better. I know there's O'Malley
Cheto announced better. I know that there is a whole
bunch of other fights that are announced coming up in
the next few months.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
This is the best one to poor. He is just
meeting potatoes enough. He's just basic enough with.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
All of his skills to where he could present problems
for the great champion Alexander, and I'm here for it.
I cannot wait until that fight next week. Hey, we'll
get excited as we go forward, But I don't know,
man skill for skill across three groups of all different
pro athletes, all different people in the world to mixed

(14:33):
martial arts, it feels universal that this is the one
that most are most excited about talking about a fight. Guys,
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