Fight Week UFC White House It started with anger. Ilia Topuria (17-0) responded to the words of Justin Gaethje (27-5), his rival, in which he made fun of his divorce with his ex-wife, Giorgina Uzcategui. The American, during an interview prior to the fight, said that “I would leave him too” in reference to Topuria’s personality, which he considered “unbearable.”
Faced with these words, already a week after facing each other on the South Lawn of the White House, Ilia went all out. This was his first message on Twitter:
“Justin crossed a line. What happened between my ex-wife and I is our business. We are no longer together, but she is the mother of my daughter. To everyone who calls her names or talks about things you know nothing about: show some respect. They don’t have to respect our relationship. But respecting someone’s mother should be one of the most basic codes in life. Be better than that,” wrote the double Hispanic-Georgian champion.
We are no longer together, but she is the mother of my daughter. To everyone who insults her or talks about things they know nothing about: show some respect
To which Gaethje responded: “Proving my theory. Insufferable little son of a ***. I never said anything about your wife. You want to talk words to my father and then act like I’ve crossed some line. “We’re already fighting, friend.”
To which Topuria… replied again: “You should have kept your father out of this. He was the one who called me softly and said you were going to destroy me, all while holding a beer in his hand. Then you started talking about my divorce and told the world that you wouldn’t want to be my roommate. Idiot. First, we’re fighting, not dating. Second, I’m not looking for a roommate. When I leave you asleep and you are lying there next to the rose, I will look at your father and ask him a simple question: ‘Who is the short one now?’ “I’m going to break you, Justin.”
Then you started talking about my divorce and told the world that you wouldn’t want to be my roommate. Idiot. First, we are fighting, not dating
The duel, which until now had taken place through ‘peaceful’ channels and always based on the respect that both have for each other as fighters, has now crossed a line that, we will see, may not have a possible return. On Thursday, the first face-to-face of the week after the press conference at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
