TayK's Review

Ilia Topuria vs Justin Gaethje

How is this not a 10/10 fight. Round 1 was crazy, huge jabs from Justin but bigger right hands from ilia. Justin was rocked multiple times, and at the end they were scrapping, and they both traded multiple times against the fence. Then round 2 Justin landed good and then ilia ripped nasty body shots, dropped Justin and then did some of the slickest transitions ever, then round 3 Justin came back and landed huge punches and rocked ilia badly, but ilia survived. Ilia took bad damage and fought through it and then round 4 was super close. Back and forth through out the full fight. This checked every box, slick grappling, heart shown through both fighters, both fighters dropped (ilia didn’t get dropped but it was close), a back and forth every single round. And it was as high stakes as you can get. My only complaint is the crowd was super biased, the crowd cheers were only present during Justin’s blows, if there was a good crowd. It would be perfect. But still, 10/10