UFC 308 Post-Fight Show: Did Ilia Topuria Lock Up Fighter of the Year with Astonishing Max Holloway Knockout?

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🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Ilia Topuria may have just locked up the Fighter of the Year. On Saturday night in Abu Dhabi, Topuria became the first man to ever knock out Max Holloway, finishing him with punches in the third round of the UFC 308 main event. Following Saturday’s pay-per-view event, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck and Jed Meshew react to Topuria’s astonishing performance and where this puts him not only in the Fighter of the Year conversation, but in the pound-for-pound mix. On top of that, MMA Fighting discusses Khamzat Chimaev breaking Robert Whittaker’s jaw with a brutal submission and whether that allows him to leapfrog Sean Strickland for a middleweight title shot, Magomed Ankalaev’s workmanlike win over Aleksandar Rakic, the judging controversies that riddled the rest of the card, and much more. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Follow Jed Meshew: @JedKMeshew Subscribe to MMA Fighting Check out our full video catalog Like MMA Fighting on Facebook Follow on Twitter Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.4	You're listening to the Fox Media Podcast Network. And There they are everybody the victory horns and they sound for in my opinion and I know other people in this panel's opinion the fighter of the year in 2024 the featherweight champion of the world
1:11.4	Iliad Deforia who becomes the first fighter ever,
1:14.7	to knock out Max Holloway in a mixed martial arts vote. And they also sound for Hamza Chamayev, who broke the jaw of Robert Whitaker with a face crack.
1:31.0	Those are the two closing moments of UFC 308.
1:34.7	We always say, afternoon MMA is always better,
1:38.4	and this was proven as UFC 308 has come to a close.
1:42.7	The longest and probably worst press conference
1:45.7	in the history of the UFC just came to a close.
1:48.0	And finally, we get to react to UFC 308
1:51.1	with all of you.
1:51.7	Welcome to the UFC 308 post- fight show. I am Mike Heck.
1:55.0	And a man who joined me in Command Center 4.0 for all the action now in Savannah.
2:00.0	Jed Masu joins us on locale with the moon behind him.
2:04.3	It looks like.
2:05.3	The moon is big and bright as is Ilia
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