{"id":414666,"date":"2025-09-11T02:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414666\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T02:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:17:11","slug":"terence-crawford-issues-hilarious-response-to-ufc-star-ilia-topurias-knockout-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414666\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford issues hilarious response to UFC star Ilia Topuria&#8217;s knockout threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of the top pound-for-pound boxers in the world, Terence Crawford, was asked to respond to UFC star Ilia Topuria\u2019s KO promise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez are just days away from squaring off in one of the biggest fights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/boxing-news\/ufc-commentator-reveals-approach-to-calling-canelo-alvarez-vs-terence-crawford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in boxing history this Saturday in Las Vegas<\/a>. In a significant move up in weight, Crawford will challenge for Alvarez\u2019s super middleweight titles in an attempt to add to his legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Crawford\u2019s boxing accolades and accomplishments, UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria is confident he\u2019d knock out Crawford in a potential crossover fight. Topuria most recently knocked out Charles Oliveira at UFC 317 to become the promotion\u2019s latest two-division champion.<\/p>\n<p>As Topuria prepares to make his first UFC lightweight title defense, he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ilia-topuria\/ilia-topuria-believes-hed-put-terence-crawford-to-sleep-in-potential-superfight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entertained the possibility<\/a> of clashing with Crawford in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>Terence Crawford mic-drops Ilia Topuria in response to knockout threat<\/p>\n<p>Topuria took aim at Crawford in a recent post to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Topuriailia\/status\/1964705542884172248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t talk about what would happen between me and Crawford in an Octagon, I\u2019ll talk about what would happen in a ring,\u201d Topuria tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put him to sleep in the first contact!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long for Crawford to take notice of Topuria\u2019s viral remarks.<\/p>\n<p>During his <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/P4QXVIT-dm4?si=q8w1MTCQ1TbCb_2n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media day press conference<\/a> ahead of his fight with Alvarez, Crawford was asked to respond to Topuria\u2019s tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat dude\u2019s drunk,\u201c Crawford replied. \u201cA lot of MMA guys, they drink a lot. He must have been on that alcohol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crawford recently picked former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt as MMA\u2019s top boxer, despite Topuria making a strong case with his highlight-reel knockouts. While it\u2019s uncertain if his pick ignited his new feud with Topuria, it certainly added to the storyline.<\/p>\n<p>Topuria rose to superstardom when he knocked out Alexander Volkanovski for the UFC featherweight title last year at UFC 298. He went on to knock out Max Holloway before vacating the featherweight belt, moving up to lightweight and defeating Oliveira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the top pound-for-pound boxers in the world, Terence Crawford, was asked to respond to UFC star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4851,19906,5705,79,22178,5706,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-414666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-canelo-alvarez","10":"tag-ilia-topuria","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-terence-crawford","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115183264977369251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}