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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Ilia Topuria opens up about fear, fight IQ, and what it takes to stay mentally sharp in the octagon. He reacts to Khabib’s take, breaks down Charles and Islam, and reveals the mentality that keeps him undefeated. One of the most focused, fearless fighters in the game right now.
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0:00.0 | You feel fear while you're going into the ring or at that point you're not... |
0:04.0 | When you are in backstage, you feel that. |
0:06.2 | You feel fear backstage. |
0:07.5 | Of course. |
0:08.1 | Adrenaline right here. |
0:09.2 | Of course you do. |
0:10.0 | Everyone does it. |
0:11.4 | Everyone. |
0:11.8 | How do you deal with it? |
0:12.6 | How do you deal with it? |
0:14.6 | I use it like from a positive way. |
0:18.0 | I use it from like, I don't know. The first thing that happens where |
0:25.9 | you are in backstage, you might, your mind used to take you to the octagon and in reality |
0:32.7 | you are in the backstage. And I'm like, listen, right? Now I'm with my people, wrapping my hands, warm up. I don't know, whatever I'm like, listen, right now I'm with my people, wrapping my hands, warm up, |
0:39.9 | I don't know, whatever I'm doing, but I'm not fighting with anyone. |
0:43.4 | So don't worry about anything. |
0:45.8 | Just save that energy because you are going to need that concentration, that focus inside the octagon. |
0:53.0 | So if you are able to, don't let your mind to |
0:57.0 | travel to the future, you are ahead of your opponents. When you're backstage and your anxiety |
1:03.6 | goes, is there anybody you want around you that brings you down? No. Or is there like your brother |
1:09.6 | calms you down? Is it a coach that calms you down? |
1:13.0 | You just want to be left alone to yourself to have the conversations in your mind yourself. |
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