WATCH: “Call it arrogance” – Ilia Topuria BOLDLY releases teaser for new movie on road to becoming champ ahead of UFC 298
Ilia Topuria has released a Hollywood-grade short three-minute trailer for his film on the route to becoming champion.
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Alexander Volkanovski takes on Ilia Topuria at UFC 298 (via IMAGO)
Ilia Topuria made waves this week with a social media post with all the dramatic flair of a Hollywood movie trailer. The undefeated 14-0 fighter will fight against featherweight king Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 298. He considers it as the climax of an inspirational underdog story worthy of the big screen.
The trailer is movie-grade and is 3 minutes and 28 seconds long. The video starts with a montage of Ilia Topuria’s rise to the title shot. The trailer showed his performance along the way. Alexander Volkanovski is then shown in the trailer, hailing him as ‘the best featherweight.’ It also showed Volk’s loss to Islam Makhachev. The final minute of the video shows the rivalry between Topuria and Volkanovksi, with them trash-talking each other. This is what Topuria captioned the post:
Call it arrogance if you want, I call it faith. I shed every drop of sweat and every drop of blood to honor my destiny. On February 17th, I will claim what is mine. #AndNew #15.Ilia Topuria via X
Topuria is leaning into the classic movie trope of an unknown fighter rising to achieve greatness against all odds. The Georgian is portrayed as the heroic underdog that viewers root for when he battles the more experienced Alexander Volkanovski.
Only time will tell if Topuria’s Rocky-style movie teaser accurately foreshadows a new champion being crowned at UFC 298. But with this dramatic promotional build-up, the expectations and stakes for Topuria have undoubtedly risen. Fight and movie fans know the lovable underdog prevails in the epic showdown more often than not.
Fight fans react to Ilia Topuria’s trailer for his ‘Road to becoming champ’ movie
MMA fans reacted passionately to the viral Twitter “teaser” posted by Ilia Topuria. He has framed his upcoming title shot against Alexander Volkanovski as an inspirational underdog movie story. Fans enthusiastically embraced Topuria’s portrayal of himself as the heroic upcoming fighter seeking glory against the established movie villain champ.
Reactions echoed the tone of an excited film audience awaiting an unlikely hero’s big moment. Many thought that Topuria’s movie was like that of Rocky. Others felt like he was overconfident, and Volkanovski would humble him. Here are some of the reactions from fight fans:
Fight fans ate up the cinematic storyline offered by the 27-year-old Topuria. They are eager to root for the upcoming Georgian to pull off the upset victory at UFC 298. It seems Topuria’s viral teaser trailer successfully cast him as the underdog hero that fans now long to see conquer the mountainous odds.
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