Robert Whittaker Has His Pick For UFC 308 Between Max Holloway And Ilia Topuria

UFC 308 headliner will be one of the most awaited events in MMA fan’s world as the reigning BMF Champion Max Holloway will fight reigning featherweight champion Ilia Topuria in Abu Dhabi on October 26, 2024. Both fighters are coming with an impressive victory over their opponents. The Pride of Hawaii showed an insane level of skills and fight IQ against one of the planet’s best and most deadly lightweights, Justin Gaethje, at UFC 300. His relentless pressure during the entire battle made him a winner already in the eyes of the spectators, but he decided to have a battle on the feet during the last 10 seconds of the fight with one of the hardest hitters and knocked him out cold with only 1 second left in the battle he became a worthy BMF title holder.

Ilia Topuria, on the other hand, became the UFC featherweight champion after knocking out the GOAT of the featherweight division, Alexander Volkanovski, at UFC 298. In the second round, he threw a mighty right hand, which landed clean on Volkanovski’s face, shutting the lights out. It will probably be Ilia’s first title defense and the hardest one, as Max Holloway is a great boxer, too. A fight between these two boxing-heavy-style fighters will be worth watching for MMA fans.

Robert Whittaker Called This Player An Underrated One

Former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker has already chosen who he wants to see win the battle at the UFC 308 main event. He picked Max Holloway to win the fight but didn’t deny that Ilia also had the skills to defeat Max Holloway. He is just leaning towards Holloway due to his experience in this game.

“I would have to say I’m leaning towards Holloway. But in saying that, I wanna see Topuria run his story. His skill level is so high. I think it’s super underrated right now. Maybe that’s because of exposure, and he hasn’t been in as many headline [fights] as Holloway has because he hasn’t done the work on paper as of just yet.
Robert Whittaker said at MMArcade

Robert Whittaker is set to fight Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 308 co-main event. The two were set to fight one month back, but due to health issues, Khamzat pulled out. Ikram Aliskerov replaced Khamzat in the main event only to get knocked out in the first round by Robert Whittaker.