When Ilia Topuria vacated the featherweight title and announced plans to make a permanent switch to lightweight, a matchup with Islam Makhachev ... saw his teammate Dustin Poirier submitted ...

🏍️🏔️Islam Makhachev spends his weekends climbing mountains on his motorcycle. 🎥 IG / salim__85 ️ pic.twitter.com/lCfBNynDEc — Home of Fight (@Home_of ...

Ilia Topuria is already looking past Charles Oliveira to a potential lightweight showdown with Islam Makhachev. Topuria is set to face Oliveira for Makhachev's vacated lightweight belt at UFC 317.

Henry Cejudo (right) makes feelings known on why Islam Makhachev (left) shouldn't have vacated UFC lightweight throne. [Images courtesy: Getty Images] Henry Cejudo recently shared his thoughts on ...

Islam Makhachev has always ... a joint-record, before Makhachev broke it with four. The friends even have a shared opponent: Dustin Poirier, whom both submitted to retain the title – Khabib ...

Ilia Topuria and Islam Makhachev are both moving up in weight, preventing a fight from two of the UFC's biggest stars, but that hasn't kept the two from engaging in a war of words. Topuria vacated ...

Islam Makhachev Moving Up To Welterweight In The Wake Of Belal’s Loss It has already been confirmed by Dana White that Makhachev will fight JDM for the 170 lb title, likely sometime early in the ...

Ilia Topuria has fired shots at Islam Makhachev ... was against an aged Dustin Poirier, and the last one was against Renato Moicano on a day's notice. Team Khabib and Makhachev's camp made it ...

and improved version of Poirier. Naturally, this would make things utterly interesting for Makhachev. “Like, he was able to push Islam. And so, I just thought maybe [Della Maddalena] is a bigger ...

We may not see a fight between former lightweight champion Islam Makhachev (27-1) and former featherweight titleholder Ilia Topuria (16-0), but the two are doing an excellent job building a ...