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“Ilya Topuria is a spectacle,” the ESPN North American network host told his paying subscribers after the Alicante-based Georgian was hailed as an extreme fighting champion. The spectacle, in addition to being a compliment, is the definition of an entertainment discipline. UFC is owned by the holding company Endeavor Group, which produces major events and productions in the field of music, film, television or extreme type shows. a battle that crowned a new king last Sunday. The next fight could take place in Spain in 2024, the company assures, and he will face Topuria with a new title candidate that has not yet been finalized, while the very tough economic competition between the company, sponsors and representatives will eventually lead to good result. Honored Finalist.

Topuria, the main actor of a big blockbuster, wants the Santiago Bernabeu stadium to be the venue for this fight. “There can be no other place,” explains the famous Real Madrid fan, who will be kicking off on the pitch on Sunday before the Real Madrid match. A club that he says best represents Spain’s values. There he will face Florentino Perez, “the idol of everything he has built,” he said at a press conference upon his arrival in Spain after the fight. Topuria is admired by the elites and arouses sympathy among the elite. It doesn’t cost less. His speech, far from the classist vision demonstrated by the son of an immigrant bricklayer declaring himself a admirer of a construction magnate, is one of if you want it, you can. You only need extreme sacrifice, exceptional talent and great luck, which are the minimum requirements for working class children to rub shoulders with the masters of the world. Topuria happily accepts the role of propagator of this vision of life, which turns those who achieve nothing into losers or immigrants, rather than into Spanish idols or icons. “I have always dreamed of being an example for children,” he said at a press conference.

TV channels proclaiming the fighter an idol of youth did not have to explain the ideological component so that everyone understood it.

Topuria is a smart guy. He knows the board of this country like he knows the ring. Upon his arrival in Spain, after being declared champion, he expressed to the media his pain at not receiving public congratulations from government president Pedro Sánchez. “It’s a shame that the leader of your country does not congratulate you.” It’s not often that you see a champion post up complaint sheets with a list of congratulations received, but the experiment was more than successful. Within minutes, headlines like “Topuria knocks out Sanchez” were sweeping through elite newsrooms. If the right hand were aimed at the country’s leader Felipe VI, the blow would be unsuccessful, but Topuria knows how to move well. The lack of congratulations from the Socialist leader is a disappointment from which this former employee of a far-right squatter company practicing the class struggle of the penultimate against the last will be able to recover from on Monday, February 26th. At the beginning of the week, the winner of the fight, organized by the North American company UFC, will be officially received by the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, and the mayor of Madrid, not Alicante, Martinez Almeida. From here new headlines will appear and their direction, unlike Topuria’s movements in the ring, is very predictable.

Topuria is a national hero, as the leading media persistently repeat, as well as citizens who know that national is not a geographical description, but something else. In the past few hours, the magic of social media has wanted comedian Ignatius Farray to be the topic of conversation as a result of Topuria’s victory after a user managed to describe the situation perfectly: “It’s normal for a southpaw to rage.” , it’s fucked up that your enemies have Topurius on their side, and Ignatius on yours. TV channels proclaiming the UFC fighter as a youth idol did not have to explain the ideological component so that everyone could easily understand it. The story of an immigrant with extraordinary qualities and an inordinate love for Spain, which we would like to see in many bad Spaniards, was more than enough to call Topuria an ideological icon. Topuria, a smart guy, knows well that the day he loses the fight and the spotlight disappears, the day he screws up, the Spanish idol will become a Georgian immigrant again. That’s why he seems determined to accept the assignment outside the ring because, unlike the UFC’s program, it does not expire and will allow him to continue to communicate with the Florentines. Continue to be an idol to all those who believe that immigration, unless it generates propaganda and wins titles in battle, is a problem that needs to be fought.

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