Ilia Topuria’s PERFECT KO at UFC 317: Is He Now UFC’s Pound-for-Pound King

Peter Klein

UFC 317 Main Event Breakdown: Ilia Topuria’s Masterclass vs. Charles Oliveira   🔥 Topuria’s Domination:   - Sniper-like precision KO  - How his 155lb power shocked Oliveira  - Why this cements him as UFC’s new superstar    💔 Oliveira’s Decline:   - Last title shot?  - Legacy at lightweight amid new era    ⚠️ UFC’s Dana White Problem:   - Pimblett callout chaos  - Who should replace White as UFC’s face?    #UFCPoundForPound #TopuriaKO #UFC317 #MMABreakdown    🎧 Listen on: Apple https://apple.co/49NGm2L | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM?si=icY7NEBvT7yZadv_JFlT6Q   💬 Follow for live breakdowns: X.com/primetimepk | Twitch.tv/primetimepk  | Kick.com/primetimepk   🔗 Support the Show:   - Tip Jar: https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip (fuels more content!)   - Partners: C of Dead http://cofdead403.ca/ | Swift Energy https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm PROMO CODE: PKPrimetime for 25% Off!

Transcript

00:00UFC 317 is now behind us, and as we kind of thought it might be, it ends up being a bit

00:10of a coronation for Ilya Tepuria, as the former 145-pound king now reigns supreme at 155 pounds.

00:18It is a picture-perfect knockout of Charles Oliveira, like, wondering what this guy's

00:24going to look like at 155 pounds. We wonder no longer with that knockout, and it really does,

00:31I think, perfectly show what this guy really can do, where it was just, it was the perfect,

00:39the perfect display of his full skill set, where, okay, it was measured, it was patient,

00:45it was technically perfect, and it was vicious. It is just, okay, we're going to see, we're going

00:49to open it, let's do a quick shot to the body, maybe just get the hands down even just a little

00:53bit, oh, hey, there's an opening there, let's do that, boom, and while we're doing that,

00:57let's come across, he's still reacting to this, let's come over with the ba-bam, and all of a

01:01sudden it's a knockout and we have a new champion at 155 pounds. Like, it was just, it was like

01:06everything was moving in slow motion for him, and it was like every movement, every punch

01:12was to set up the next movement and the next punch. There was nothing wasted in any of that

01:17in Ilya Teporia. It was sniper-esque, what he was able to do. Just brilliant. All the way around

01:24brilliant. It is the skill set that got him to this point, and it is that type of an approach

01:28combined with the skill set that has him now on the top of a second division and talking about him

01:34as a number one pound-for-pound fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. So a huge

01:39congratulations to him. He is the real deal. He feels like a superstar. He has the look. He has the

01:45skill set. He feels like he is a big, big, big deal, and I would like him to be treated as such

01:51by the company. In terms of Charles Oliveira, it's a long road back for him. It felt like this was kind

01:58of the last gasp of a title opportunity for him. He's still going to give us exciting fights, but in

02:04terms of relevancy, I just don't think he gets there anymore, and that is unfortunate for Oliveira

02:11because he is an incredible competitor, one of the greats at 155 pounds, but it's just,

02:17it feels like now the time has passed for him when you look at the fighters who he has beat compared

02:22to the fighters he has lost to over the last little while, and which ones are going to be

02:25hanging out at the top of the division and which ones aren't. Patty Pimblett steps in for the title

02:30challenge, and this sums up the UFC perfectly. Dana saying after the event, he didn't know that was

02:35going to happen, and he didn't know who allowed it. So you have a big moment on a big night for the

02:40UFC, one of their tentpole events, but Dana is unaware of something big that is happening that

02:45is messing with the overall messaging of the company. It's another example of Dana not really

02:49knowing what's going on. We saw this a lot in the Jon Jones saga. Remember when we were guaranteed

02:55that those two were going to fight, and now remember how we're not going to see those two fight

02:59now? Cool. And then Dana not knowing about the tweets that are being sent out and all of that.

03:04These are the attention to detail things that never happened when Dana was fully

03:09in control. And I'm not even fully blaming Dana for this, but look at everything he's got going

03:17on right now. He has slap, which I wish would just go away, but still, it's not, and he is running it.

03:24So he has that. He has whatever he is doing on the meta board and all his stuff with Donald Trump and

03:29everything like that too, which again, meh. But he also has Zupa boxing, and they're promoting one of

03:34the biggest fights of the year in that sport with Canelo against Crawford. So no shit this guy doesn't

03:38have, again, made the reference earlier, but no kidding. He doesn't have both hands on the steering

03:43wheel knowing where this thing is going. He's just kind of along for the ride being the face of this

03:47company. And for a while, like he has never been just the guy, right? He has been the guy to us

03:53and the forward facing one, but there have been a lot more people kind of pulling a lot of the strings

03:58in the background. But now it feels like he has less control and less awareness of what is going on

04:03with this than ever before. Didn't even mention they have a TV contract that they are negotiating

04:09as well, trying to get literally billions of dollars into their company. So there's a lot

04:15that this guy is managing. And I just wonder if it is time now for there to be a new kind of face

04:20of the UFC. And that will be a change because he is the biggest star in the UFC and has been for a

04:26very long time. And that is how they wanted it. They never, I think they really learned from how,

04:32like the Randy Couture situation went down and a few other things went down early in their time

04:36in the UFC and recognize like these guys are going to come and go. This is a violent sport.

04:42We need to have something. We need to make the, we need to make the three letters UFC and eventually

04:47Dana White as the real actual star of this instead of these guys who can come and go. And then we don't

04:53have as many ebbs and flows. Um, he, they, that this was a concentrated effort, but this was always

04:59going to be the concern is that one day that just the way Dana is, that eye is going to start

05:04wandering to new challenges and new things. And so I wonder if there needs to be now a new kind of

05:10face of the UFC. I don't think Patty Pimblett should be the next title challenger for Ilya

05:15Teporia. It feels like he is still a fight away from getting that opportunity. But I think that this

05:21is also would be a bit of a star making night for Teporia. If you were to go out there and face

05:27Patty Pimblett and continue to elevate a guy who could be the face of the ultimate fighting

05:30championship for a bit. Um, just a reminder that, uh, you can support couch potato diary

05:36and my cat's insatiable treat habit with a tip. There is a link in the description wherever

05:42you were consuming this. Um, if it is YouTube daily motion or podcast and for those on Twitch

05:47or kick, there is a tip panel not required, certainly not expected, uh, but would be greatly

05:52appreciated. The rest of the UFC story will be coming again from me a little bit later on here

05:58in other, if you're watching on video, other videos to come podcast form, other podcasts to come. I

06:03just, we, we gotta, we're already pushing up against it here today.

Category

Transcript

Recommended