The soon-to-be former UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria was not too long ago requested concerning the controversial Bryce Mitchell’s perception within the Flat Earth conspiracy. For context, ‘Flat Earth’ is an archaic conception of Earth’s bodily form, broadly considered disproven within the scientific neighborhood.
Nevertheless, Mitchell is understood for his ardent perception in Flat Earth, which has drawn taunts and mockery from different fighters. This time, it was the Spanish phenom’s flip to supply his ideas on Mitchell’s unconventional beliefs. The dialog came about on the PBD Podcast.
“He is like, I do not know, loopy man. The Earth is flat and what? Okay, simply suppose the Earth is flat. What we do with that info, bro? What the f*ck are you speaking about?”
Try Ilia Topuria dismissing Bryce Mitchell’s Flat Earth perception (31:03):
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One other fighter who scoffed at Mitchell’s perception within the Flat Earth conspiracy principle is former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland. Regardless of the final dismissal of the notion, Flat Earth has achieved a sure stage of enchantment within the MMA and fight sports activities world generally.
Whereas Mitchell is MMA’s most well-known proponent of the conspiracy principle, former UFC middleweight title challenger Paulo Costa is one other supporter of the thought, as is tenth Planet jiu-jitsu founder Eddie Bravo, and UFC featherweight Kron Gracie, who ‘Thug Nasty’ final defeated by way of knockout at UFC 310.
As for Topuria, he’s extra involved with securing a light-weight title, as he continues to poke and taunt Islam Makhachev for a struggle, claiming that he can each knock him out and submit him as properly.
Ilia Topuria was the primary man to defeat Bryce Mitchell
Earlier than UFC 282, Bryce Mitchell was an undefeated featherweight. Sadly, when he crossed swords with Ilia Topuria, he was out of his depth. The Spaniard battered him for 2 rounds, earlier than gorgeous each the followers and commentary crew by submitting ‘Thug Nasty,’ the grappler, with an arm-triangle choke in spherical two.
This gave Topuria the excellence of being the primary fighter to beat Mitchell. Nevertheless, it would not be his remaining time scoring a primary, as he has since gone on to grow to be the primary, and to date, solely man to knock Max Holloway out, which he did at UFC 307.
