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    Ethnic Georgian Ilia Topuria becomes lightweight champion after knocking out three UFC legends in a row across his three most recent fights.
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    Ethnic Georgian Ilia Topuria becomes lightweight champion after knocking out three UFC legends in a row across his three most recent fights.


    Georgians are starting to become mainstream in the UFC and as a whole the Caucasus now has almost a chokehold on the championship level of UFC. What are you thoughts on Georgians in the UFC, Caucasian fighters in the UFC in general, and etc?

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    1. Signal_Tea7601 on

      The UFC must make Islam vs Ilia as soon as they can! Not a big fan of ilia but hes definitely the 2nd best fighter itw rn right after islam 🙏🏼

    2. Bad-Monk on

      No need for ‘ethnic’ the guy is a Spaniard, but he has Georgian citizenship too and represents Georgia officially. You can just say Georgian. No disrespect to Spain, much of his success is down to living in Spain and being trained by Spaniards.

    3. catalyst366 on

      Im biased ofc but i think Georgia has the impressive athletic accomplishments in the whole world when taking population into consideration, 2 ufc world champions, arguably the p4p number 1&2, the greatest/strongest armwrestler of all time, greatest/strongest weightlifter of all time (shame he went into politics), great football team, amazing rugby team, great basketball team, countless judo and greco roman/freestyle wrestling champions. No country with around 4 million people is coming anywhere near to these accomplishments

    4. Deucalion667 on

      Georgians are historically quite good in “fighting” sports.

      We systematically hit above our “weight class” in getting Gold Medals on Olympics and it is all due to Judo and Greco-Roman Wrestling. These schools are quite popular here. A lot of youngster go into these sports, Some become Olympic champions, some are not that good and are hired by government to beat up protesters….

      Anyway…. Ilia grew up in Georgia and trained in Greco-Roman Wrestling until he moved to Spain at the age of 15. There he was not able to find a gym to train at the same sport and went into MMA.

      He is not just “Ethnically” Georgian, he is a normal Georgian who emigrated to Spain in his teens. He even became citizen of Spain after winning the first belt in UFC.

      As for the impact, as I’ve mentioned before, “fighting” is quite popular, but traditionally our youngsters went into less popular sports. I am guessing that the success of both Merab and Ilia will have a profound impact on the development of MMA in Georgia.