Topuria could become an instant MMA great with his plan to vacate the UFC featherweight title and move up to lightweight.

Topuria could become an instant MMA great with his plan to vacate the UFC featherweight title and move up to lightweight.

UFC president Dana White shocked the world Thursday night when he announced that UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria was ...

Ilia Topuria is keeping the pressure on Islam Makhachev. Aiming to attain a double champion status, Topuria wants to move up in weight and fight Islam Makhachev. However, Makhachev has downplayed ...

Sherdog columnist Dayne Fox looks at the wide-ranging repercussions from the Spaniard’s decision to vacate the Ultimate ...

Alexander Volkanovski returns for a featherweight title fight against Diego Lopes at UFC 314. Ilia Topuria has moved up to ...

Ilia Topuria has decided to depart the UFC featherweight division, and former champ Alexander Volkanovski is set to fight for ...

Ilia Topuria really wants that second belt it seems. While he has been a phenom in the featherweight division, ‘El Matador’ is now looking to venture into the lightweight category too.

Discussions have become tense between UFC Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev and UFC Featherweight Champion Ilia Topuria regarding a possible mega superfight (champ vs. champ). With two ...

It's OK. Get up there (welterweight), it's OK," added Topuria. If it were that easy, and if he were as short as he says, he would already share the octagon with me, wouldn't he? Ilia Topuria a ...

UFC Featherweight Champion Ilia Topuria has had enough of Conor McGregor's MMA comeback proclamations and has taken a stand against the Irish-born star's immediate future. Topuria is four months ...

Based in Rochester, England, Simon Head is a veteran sports editor who has been covering sport for national and international outlets since 2000, and is one of the longest-tenured MMA journalists ...