{"id":13168,"date":"2025-06-29T05:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/topuria-kos-oliveira-new-two-division-champion\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:56:24","slug":"topuria-kos-oliveira-new-two-division-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/topuria-kos-oliveira-new-two-division-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Topuria KOs Oliveira: New two-division champion!"},"content":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2013 Ilia Topuria kept his promise. The Spanish fighter not only predicted a victory over Charles Oliveira, but also anticipated the way it would happen, leaving everyone surprised by the forcefulness of the result.\n\nTopuria, with an undefeated record of 17-0, became the tenth two-division champion in UFC history by knocking out Oliveira in the first round, exactly at 2 minutes and 27 seconds.\n\nA precise right hook to Oliveira&#8217;s chin was the beginning of the end, followed by a left hook that sealed the victory. The initial impact had already weakened Oliveira, making the second blow the perfect finishing touch.\n\nThis achievement highlights Topuria even more, as he is the first champion in UFC history to conquer multiple titles while maintaining his undefeated record.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I already said it,&#8221; Topuria affirmed, who even celebrated an anticipated dinner on Friday in anticipation of the victory. &#8220;I represent the new era of mixed martial arts. This is the next level of the game.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Ilia Topuria<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nAfter the victory, the UFC was quick to mention Paddy Pimblett, number 8 in the lightweight rankings. Pimblett, present at the T-Mobile Arena, has a history with Topuria dating back to 2021, when the Spaniard was offended by Pimblett&#8217;s comments about the 2008 Russo-Georgian war.\n\nPimblett even entered the cage to confront Topuria, who had expressed his desire to face him in his first title defense, preferably in Las Vegas.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0629%2Fr1512565_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Ilia Topuria cumpli\u00f3 su predicci\u00f3n, noqueando a Charles Oliveira a los 2:27 del primer asalto y convirti\u00e9ndose en campe\u00f3n de dos divisiones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n&#8220;If you think you&#8217;re ready, let him come. You&#8217;re a blonde bitch,&#8221; Topuria snapped.\n\nTopuria&#8217;s spectacular performance was undeniable, even against Oliveira&#8217;s attempts to take him to the clinch and take him down. Topuria knew how to reverse the situation, ending up on top of the submission specialist.\n\nThe victory on Saturday solidifies one of the most impressive careers in MMA history. Topuria has knocked out three big names, including former featherweight champions Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway.\n\nIn addition to Pimblett, Topuria has set his sights on former lightweight champion Islam Makhachev, who vacated his belt last month to move up to welterweight.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 Ilia Topuria kept his promise. The Spanish fighter not only predicted a victory over Charles Oliveira, but also anticipated the way it would happen, leaving everyone surprised by the forcefulness of the result. Topuria, with an undefeated record of 17-0, became the tenth two-division champion in UFC history by knocking out Oliveira [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[673,2095,478,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-13168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-charles-oliveira","9":"tag-ilia-topuria","10":"tag-mma","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}