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Ilia Topuria had a nasty altercation with Paddy Pimblett ahead of UFC London on Saturday. Pimblett threw hand sanitizer and some punches were thrown between the two men.
The two actually didn't know each other and Ilia Topuria didn't have Paddy Pimblett on his radar. The UFC featherweight grew to dislike him after he made some comments in an argument with his teammate.
“I don’t know him, but the first interaction that I had with him was because he was arguing with Guram Kutateladze,” Topuria told MMA Junkie in Spanish. “I’m not really sure why or what they were talking about, and all of the sudden I read something I think like, ‘Now I know why Russia bombed Georgia. You guys are a bunch of idiots.’
“So my reaction to someone taking this like a joke when in that war many innocent people died – we’re talking about children and people who had nothing to do with that. So for someone to laugh at that, and it’s also a painful subject for me because family members of mine died in that war and many countrymen of mine. So it’s not something that pleases me and from there everything started.
“And what can I say about someone who pokes fun at that? He’s an idiot and immature. If he thinks I’m going to take a step back when I see him, then he’s badly mistaken. He needs to pray that we don’t cross paths because I’ll go crazy.”
The two are fighting different opponents at UFC London but they could cross paths in the future. Ilia Topuria would look forward to a fight with Paddy Pimblett in the future.
“Of course (I want that fight),” Topuria said. “With a lot of honor and pride for all my people, I would love it. The truth is that I would love it. Because if you think about it, if I catch him outside of the octagon, I’m going to hand him a beating, and I’m going to have to pay is recovery. This way, if he accepts a fight with me, I’m going to crack his head, and I’d get paid for beating him up.”
