UFC Featherweight Champion Ilia Topuria said that the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Perez, plans to stage a fighting show at the Santiago Bernabeu arena.
The Georgian representing Spain and the functionary met on the podium during the match of the 26th round of the Spanish Championship between the Royal Club and Sevilla (1:0).
“Florentino congratulated me, gave me a T-shirt and told me something like: we are going to bring the UFC here. Perez is betting 100% on the UFC at the Santiago Bernabeu. He is a visionary, we all know that,” Mundo Deportivo quotes Topuria.
On February 17 at UFC 298 in Anaheim, California, USA, Topuria knocked out Alexander Volkanovski in the second round and won the belt in the up to 65.8 kg category. Later, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the fighter would soon receive Spanish citizenship.
