Daniel Cormier has chosen featherweight champion Ilia Topuria as his UFC Male Fighter of the Year, opting for Topuria over light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira.
UFC legend Daniel Cormier didn't pick Alex Pereira for his UFC Male Fighter of the Year, naming featherweight champion Ilia Topuria instead. Topuria, who took the featherweight title in 2023, is one spot below Pereira as the fourth ranked UFC pound-for-pound fighter. Pereira was crowned the light heavyweight champion in November 2023 when he beat Jiri Prochazka.
This made him one of the few fighters to secure two-division status in the UFC, as he had already conquered the middleweight rankings. He defended his belt again five months later by knocking out Jamahal Hill, and doing the same to Prochazka again before. Topuria responded to a bold prediction Ronaldo made at his last fight against Ngannou. ‘I don’t know if one of Pereira’s wins or three of Pereira’s wins outweigh, in terms of importance, the two that Ilia Topuria had,’ Cormier said. ‘Pereira beat two former champions in Jamahal Hill and Jiri, and then he beat a guy in Khalil Rountree, who’s really good and was ranked seventh, right? Went up in the rankings after he lost.’ Cormier went on to say how Volkanovski and Holloway were still at the very top of their game when Topuria faced them. ‘And that’s partly because no one will ever go above Jose Aldo because all he did to start the division. He beat Max Holloway, the third best featherweight of all time. In terms of importance, he literally went in one year, Chael, and did away with the last eight years of the division. He went and took care of everybody from 2015 to 2024, all in one year, because from that time to now, it was always Alex Volkanovski or always Max Holloway.’ Sonnen was full of praise for Cormier’s line of argument, although he still stuck to his own guns on making Pereira Fighter of the Year. Volkanovski rose through the featherweight division in the three years since making his UFC debut in November 2016
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