Valuetainment - April 11, 2025


＂He’s Not Fight Ready＂ – Ilia Topuria SHREDS Conor McGregor’s Comeback With BRUTAL Reality Check


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Length

7 minutes

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175.81282

Word Count

1,305

Sentence Count

132

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 If you look up, Rob, who are the top five biggest fights?
00:00:02.880 I think 5-4-5, it's all the lightweight, right?
00:00:06.340 Yeah, it is all lightweight because it's Conor Khabib.
00:00:09.200 I think it's Conor.
00:00:11.340 Conor, I think he's retired.
00:00:14.660 You think he's retired?
00:00:15.620 Yeah, I think so.
00:00:16.480 He's not going to come back.
00:00:17.660 What do you think happened to him?
00:00:18.600 You think it's the money and the success?
00:00:21.340 I think that he doesn't have the motivation anymore.
00:00:24.660 He's done great things in the sport, but he doesn't have the motivation.
00:00:30.500 He got, I think, a lot of money.
00:00:33.020 He's spending also a lot of money, so I don't know.
00:00:35.960 I don't know him personally.
00:00:37.260 I don't know him.
00:00:37.860 You guys have never met?
00:00:39.120 Never.
00:00:40.320 So there's no relationship?
00:00:41.560 No.
00:00:42.060 Because he's said some stuff about you, and you've said some stuff about him.
00:00:44.800 Yeah, but nothing good.
00:00:47.780 Yeah, nothing good.
00:00:50.820 Nothing good.
00:00:51.480 So if right now you guys were to fight, like right now, right now, let's just say in two
00:00:55.460 weeks, he gets a call, and a fight happens, you're fight ready.
00:00:58.680 You think he's fight ready to go up against you today?
00:01:01.100 Him?
00:01:01.580 Yeah.
00:01:02.040 No, I don't think so.
00:01:04.240 What he did in the last two weeks, party, drinking beers, what I did in the last two weeks.
00:01:11.500 I trained twice a day.
00:01:14.820 I don't know.
00:01:15.960 I'm an active fighter.
00:01:17.360 I defended my belt a couple of months ago.
00:01:19.900 When was the last time he fought?
00:01:22.480 He fought, I don't know, three years ago, four years ago.
00:01:26.720 He's not in shape.
00:01:28.940 Your peak, like right now, some would even say you're not even at your peak yet.
00:01:35.100 Yeah.
00:01:35.460 Because you're still getting better, right?
00:01:37.240 You're 28.
00:01:38.460 How old are you?
00:01:39.260 28.
00:01:40.000 28 years old.
00:01:40.920 So some of these guys, they peaked at 32, 33, 31.
00:01:46.100 That's the age, right?
00:01:47.360 Yeah.
00:01:47.640 You're at 28.
00:01:48.920 Your peak versus Conor's peak.
00:01:50.640 Who wins that fight?
00:01:52.160 At 155, let's just say.
00:01:53.740 My answer is going to be always me.
00:01:57.900 Every day, all day, I'm going to beat that guy.
00:02:00.420 No matter when and where.
00:02:02.580 But if you ask him, he's going to tell you probably the same.
00:02:05.880 So you know how it works.
00:02:07.900 This is a sport.
00:02:08.820 No one's going to give up.
00:02:09.800 When you were coming up, was he somebody you looked up to?
00:02:12.540 Were you like, you know, was Conor your guy?
00:02:14.960 Were you a fan of his when you were coming up as a young fighter?
00:02:17.520 Yeah, of course.
00:02:18.480 Of course.
00:02:19.260 He inspired a lot of fighters.
00:02:21.100 He changed the sport.
00:02:22.960 He did so many great things for the sport.
00:02:25.560 You can't say like anything different about that.
00:02:29.140 But he, like, little by little, he changed his values.
00:02:35.340 He changed everything.
00:02:36.720 Like, right now, what does he represent?
00:02:41.100 I always used to say, like, drugs, alcohol, bad lifestyle.
00:02:47.640 But who gives a fuck?
00:02:48.640 Do you watch closely to make sure you, like, as you're going through it, are you also watching
00:02:56.460 in very detail on the decisions you're making to see how you're living?
00:03:01.880 Because you're watching, okay, this is what this guy did right.
00:03:04.080 That's what this guy did wrong.
00:03:05.180 Are you studying everybody to see what, for yourself to be protected of?
00:03:09.080 Of course.
00:03:09.960 Of course.
00:03:10.460 I always try to develop my skills.
00:03:12.300 I always try to have more abilities.
00:03:15.540 Because at the end of the day, your skills make you rich, right?
00:03:19.700 Not the money.
00:03:20.600 Because if you don't have the skills, you don't have the right mentality, you are poor.
00:03:25.020 So I all the time try to develop my skills and my abilities.
00:03:30.480 And when going with someone like you, because I think you said one time, you said you want
00:03:35.880 to make, did you say you want to make more money than Ronaldo?
00:03:38.040 I think you said you want to make more money than Ronaldo.
00:03:39.760 I want to make more money than everyone.
00:03:44.140 Why is that?
00:03:44.920 And how are you going to do it?
00:03:48.480 Okay.
00:03:50.020 Let's switch that a little bit.
00:03:51.880 Please.
00:03:52.040 It's not like I want to be better than someone.
00:03:55.720 It's like if someone could do it, I want to do it also.
00:03:58.380 I got it.
00:03:59.060 And if no one did it, I want to be the first one to do it.
00:04:02.520 So this is the mentality.
00:04:03.660 It's not to look down to someone.
00:04:06.960 Sure, right.
00:04:07.420 It's not because of that.
00:04:08.520 It's I want to experience that also, how it feels to be the number one guy.
00:04:17.320 Why not?
00:04:18.200 Right?
00:04:18.500 You're saying pay-wise.
00:04:20.280 Yeah.
00:04:20.820 Why not?
00:04:21.080 Do you have a strategy on how you want to do it?
00:04:22.940 Have you thought about it?
00:04:24.200 Have you thought about what method you're going to have?
00:04:25.980 I looked at the pay on what you've got.
00:04:28.980 Earlier, we were talking to the guys.
00:04:31.320 And when I look at this, your first fight, I don't know if it's your first fight, but one
00:04:35.280 of your first fights that you made $38,500, October 10, 2020.
00:04:39.840 Then you made $50,000, then $75,000, then $90,000, then you made $154,000 with Bryce Mitchell,
00:04:44.500 one of your good friends.
00:04:45.240 And then you made $200,000 with Josh Emmett, then you made $532,000, fighter of the year
00:04:53.940 2024 with Volk, and then you made $2.44 million with Holloway.
00:05:00.000 So roughly career earnings, $3.5 million.
00:05:03.320 And this is a very good trajectory.
00:05:06.560 If this is a stock, there's some real good things around the corner for you, right?
00:05:10.440 Fight-wise.
00:05:11.440 It's not only fight-wise.
00:05:13.480 But it's also business-wise.
00:05:16.860 That's why I try to develop all the time my skills, you know, because at some point,
00:05:21.560 I'm going to retire, and I'm going to make a living from something else.
00:05:28.220 Got it.
00:05:28.680 How much longer do you think you'll be fighting?
00:05:30.300 You're 28 now.
00:05:31.580 Till I enjoy, to be honest.
00:05:33.280 Before, I used to be like, maybe when I'm 30 or 32.
00:05:38.700 But now, till I enjoy, I will be active.
00:05:44.300 How old was Khabib when he retired?
00:05:46.000 I think 32.
00:05:47.220 Was he 32?
00:05:48.200 32.
00:05:48.780 Yeah, you're right.
00:05:49.300 32, September 20, 1988, when he retired.
00:05:52.360 Interesting.
00:05:53.300 But right now, you're enjoying it.
00:05:55.040 You see yourself going for a few more years.
00:05:57.200 Exactly.
00:05:57.940 Okay.
00:05:58.200 I have a new motivation, new division.
00:06:01.600 I have a lot of guys there.
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