Robert Whittaker Doesn’t Like Charles Oliveira’s Possibilities
Throughout a brand new version of the “MMArcade Podcast,” Robert Whittaker stated that for pretty much as good as Charles Oliveira is, he doesn’t consider “do Bronx” will have the ability to stand up to the barrage that Ilia Topuria will put forth (by way of MMAJunkie).
“Ilia is a weapon,” Whittaker stated. “What he did to (Alexander Volkanovski) and what he did to Max (Holloway), two of one of the best featherweights – Volk being one of the best featherweight to have ever completed it – he starched two legends of the game. That’s unreal. Ilia’s talent set is ridiculous. Charles is phenomenal, as effectively. He’s tremendous harmful off his again. Ilia has the grappling to do it. Charles standing, very textbook – however will get hit quite a bit. Ilia loves scrapping, loves transferring on the within, loves slipping punches to land punches. He’s so good at soiled boxing. I simply don’t see the place Charles wins this struggle towards Ilia.”
Topuria is transferring up from the featherweight division, which is acquainted territory for Oliveira. There was a time when “do Bronx” competed at 145 kilos earlier than having the most important run of his professional MMA profession at light-weight. Some are questioning if the change in weight class could have any unfavourable affect on Topuria, however Whittaker doesn’t consider that would be the case.
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