Dana White explains Ilia Topuria's decision to vacate UFC Featherweight Title

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Dana White explains Ilia Topuria's decision to vacate UFC Featherweight Title

Once the referee signals the start of the UFC 314 main event, Ilia Topuria’s featherweight reign will officially come to an end. UFC CEO Dana White announced on Wednesday that Topuria (16-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) is vacating his featherweight title as he moves up to the lightweight division. “Topuria has felt like he’s done all he can in that division, and he feels like he’s cemented his legacy, and his body cannot make the weight anymore,” White said on…

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Dana White explains Ilia Topuria's decision to vacate UFC featherweight title

UFC CEO Dana White announced Ilia Topuria will be vacating the featherweight title to continue his career at 155 pounds. Here's why.

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Ilia Topuria gives news that has left everyone bewildered Dana White made an explosive announcement. On a Wednesday full of movements in Las Vegas, the UFC revealed several plans for the immediate future, but one in particular caught all the attention: Ilia Topuria renounces the featherweight title and gives the jump to the lightweight division with the aim of winning a second championship. “Topuria has felt that she has done everything she coul…

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Ilia Topuria’s Time At Featherweight Ends As ‘What Could’ve Been’

It was nearly midnight on Wednesday when the MMA world received groundbreaking news. Many who had work in the morning were sound asleep and wouldn’t hear about the changes until hours later. But others who expected an announcement that evening sleuthed around UFC CEO Dana White’s Instagram until a live stream suddenly popped up. Then a bombshell was dropped on them. After his breakout year—taking down future UFC Hall of Fame names to capture the…

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There's more to Ilia Topuria's title vacation than Islam Makhachev fight and it's the same thing that could've persuaded Khabib Nurmagomedov to return

Chael Sonnen recently broke down Ilia Topuria vacating the featherweight title to move to lightweight and explained how the Georgian-Spanish fighter's decision may be inspired by the same reason that

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UFC Featherweight Says Ilia Topuria Won't Last At Lightweight, Will Be Back To 145 In Late 2025

Not everyone is convinced that Ilia Topuria’s voyage into the lightweight division will last. On Wednesday, UFC CEO Dana White announced that Topuria had officially vacated his featherweight title and would be moving up to 155, presumably for a future fight with the division’s reigning champion, Islam Makhachev. As a result, former featherweight king Alexander Volkanovski will meet surging contender Diego Lopes at UFC 314 for the vacated 145-pou…