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The UFC featherweight champion has big plans for his future, and they involve beating new BMF champ Holloway and fighting McGregor in the home of Real Madrid FC.

New UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria is lining up his future opponents, and Alexander “The Great” Volkanovski is not included in the list.

Topuria took the belt off Volkanovski with a second round KO of the longstanding champion, and while a rematch was initially discussed, “El Matador” feels like he has bigger fish to fry now.

“I hope to defend the belt with Max Holloway, and then I wanna fight with Conor McGregor, hopefully,” Topuria told Sportskeeda in a new interview. “If [McGregor] wins his upcoming fight, that’s the fight I’m looking for. So hopefully it’s gonna happen.”

McGregor has his own fast-moving plans: he wants to cram three fights into 2024 to make up for lost time: the June 29th fight with Michael Chandler, a headline fight at the Sphere in September for Mexican Independence Day, and then a final bout in December.

Everyone seems to want onto that Sphere show except Topuria, who has a bigger building he wants to fill: the 80,000+ person Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Spain.

“It’s gonna be the biggest fight in the in the MMA history,” Topuria said. “The biggest ticketing, the biggest pay-per-view, the biggest everything. We’re gonna have 80,000 people watching the fight in the arena. Yeah. It’s gonna be in the Bernabeu. When the UFC is gonna arrive in Spain, it’s gonna happen in Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.”

But first, Conor McGregor has to win his comeback fight at UFC 303. While “The Notorious” hasn’t been too complimentary towards Topuria, Ilia avoided burying the Irish sports star when sharing his prediction for June 29th.

“Conor, he’s he’s something special,” he said. “When he goes inside the cage, you never know. Maybe you see a knockout in 15 seconds, or maybe you see he breaks his leg, or someone knocks him out. So you never know. Something you always know is that you’re gonna see something spectacular in the fight. Something’s gonna happen.”

And if it happens that McGregor smashes Chandler, maybe it will set up a Topuria superfight in Spain for 2024 or 2025.

Is Conor McGregor turning a new leaf when it comes to trash talking his opponents? The Irish sports star says he intends to be calm and composed leading into UFC 303.

Conor McGregor is a man of many faces, and we’re curious to see which one he’ll put on as we come into his big comeback fight against Michael Chandler on June 29th.

There was respectful McGregor, who we saw in the lead-up to the second Dustin Poirier fight at UFC 257. Super villain McGregor returned for the third fight with Poirier at UFC 264. According to Conor himself, the “Notorious” we see at UFC 303 will be cold and collected.

“I’m calm, I’m composed, and I’m cold in the soul for this man.” Conor McGregor said in an interview with his MMA news website The Mac Life. “This whole thing, I’m coming back with a vengeance and I’m coming back with skill. I’m excited to show my skills. I’m in a great place mentally, physically, and spiritually. Five weeks, five days time, we’re back on the horse. Giddy up!”

McGregor has been known to wage mental warfare on his opponent with endless heated trash talk. That may be a thing of the past, says McGregor.

“I don’t think I’ll go to that level again,” he declared. “It doesn’t serve a purpose, and it doesn’t serve me well. You remain cold to the situation, you remain emotionless. It’s a blank face and a specific body type. He has his set movements, his set patterns he moves in, and his set shots and I’m aware of them. I’m preparing for a multitude of outcomes and just getting myself ready as I can be. I’m confident that all my shots will land.”

McGregor may say he’s turned a new leaf, but on the same day he suggested his trash talking era was done with, he dropped some wild one-liners on half the UFC roster.

Conor can’t help but get into it with everybody, and while we appreciate the aspirational quality to his comments, we don’t buy it. McGregor was on his best behavior for The Mac Life interview, but it didn’t last long. He was still wearing the same shirt while dropping verbal bombs during a Duelbits Q&A.

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Ryan Garcia isn’t pretending to be crazy anymore, but that doesn’t mean the monkeying around is through.

“King” shocked social media with a bizarre video (watch above) of the boxing star serenading an orangutang! Garcia can be seen rapping along to his own recent release — a song titled “Blessed, Highly Favored” — while the orangutan hangs out and eats grapes in the driver’s seat of a car (presumably Garcia’s?).

Reactions amongst fans were mixed. Quite a few fans admitted to finding the stunt funny, while many noted that the orangutan appeared unimpressed by his performance. He received several comparisons to other celebrities and their unusual animal pals, like Mike Tyson and his tiger.

Oddly enough, Garcia also ran into a UFC fighter while hanging out with orangutan. Lightweight talent Jared Gordon posted his own clip, showing both he and Garcia holding hands with the primate before shaking hands with each other.

In the ring, Garcia is just a couple weeks removed from handing Devin Haney the first loss of his professional career (watch it) and making an insane amount of money in the process. Unfortunately, Garcia also failed a drug test for multiple substances immediately after the victory. To his credit, however, Garcia has already been cleared on one substance, but he still has to prove his innocence in regards to Ostarine usage.

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