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00:00All right, here we go with your championship tail of the tape brought to you by Crypto.com, the world's
00:04leading cryptocurrency platform celebrating its 10 year anniversary. Justin Gaethje is 37. Ilya Toputia 29. Gaethje has 4 inches in
00:12height. Less pronounced in reach where the American fighter will have a reach advantage of 1 inch. Gaethje, the interim
00:18champ. Ilya, the UFC lightweight champion. They will unify the lightweight titles with the White House in the backdrop. In
00:27your main event introductions, Bruce Buffett.
00:30Ladies and gentlemen, this is the main event of the evening.
00:39Thank you by the Association of Combat Commissions. Our three judges scoring this contest at Octagon CIDAR, Ben Cartlidge, Derek
00:47Cleary, and Sal D'Amato.
00:49And when the action begins, our referee in charge of the Octagon, Mark Goddard.
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01:03the word password as his password.
01:10And now, for those in attendance and UFC fans watching around the world, this is the moment you've all been
01:25waiting for.
01:26Live from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.
01:44It's time!
01:48Five rounds for the Undisputed UFC Lightweight Championship of the World!
02:00Introducing first, fighting out of the blue corner!
02:04A mixed martial artist, holding a professional record, 27 wins, 5 losses!
02:09He stands, 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing in at 155 pounds!
02:15Fighting out of Denver, Colorado, by way of Sanford, Arizona!
02:20He is the former UFC BMF Champion, and the two-time Interim UFC Lightweight Champion, presenting the challenger, Justin, the
02:41Highlight Game Show!
02:50And now, introducing his opponent, fighting out of the red corner, an undefeated mixed martial artist, holding a perfect professional
03:00record, 17 wins, no losses!
03:02He stands, he stands, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing in at 155 pounds!
03:09Fighting out of Alicante, Spain!
03:12Presenting the former UFC featherweight champion, Andy Reigning!
03:20Defending Undisputed UFC Lightweight Champion of the World!
03:31Oh!
03:31Ilia!
03:33I'm back to the...
03:37Toporia!
03:39Toporia!
03:47Okay, gentlemen, you understand the rules, you find there.
03:49Listen to me at all times, keep yourself protected.
03:51When I say stop, you stop.
03:53If you want to touch through it now, God bless.
03:57the tension is palpable as they say about 4 300 people with us here on the south lawn another
04:0480 000 not far away on the ellipse thank you chrissy ready to go and that is the belt that
04:11is on the line here at ufc freedom 250 the calm cool and collected ilia topordia is in the blue
04:19center of the octagon just engaged working off of that jab early is in what that was stiff jab by
04:25geachie there where he's walking him down
04:38geachie's jab being hurt from early that's three nice low kick by
04:47nice uppercut by geachie
04:52geachie had to wait a long time but off to an outstanding start
04:59it's almost like the for you doesn't respect what justin's throwing at him
05:03oh nice leg kick that's another one from to pour you just me store his leg kick
05:10oh nice right big right here from topordia after geachie appear to land
05:16geachie landed a good right hand there to pour you came back with a right hand of his own
05:21topordia is so slick the way he holds his hands up and moves with punches oh right hand over the
05:27top
05:28nice right hand there by justin though counter got through for the american nice uppercut
05:34but you can just see like the difference in the power or at least the way to pour you throws
05:40it seems like his is taking more of an effect so precise there's a clean right hand by ilia
05:46geachie pursues the clinch nice uppercut by geachie again really good start for the underdog geachie
05:56landed 15 of 26 significant strikes already remember geachie threw so many leg kicks he doesn't do that
06:02anymore i think that would benefit him with topordia having such a heavy boxing style and topordia is
06:09already bloodied up on that right side oh clean right here he's so fast and precise he's so quick
06:19appears as though it was an uppercut that opened topordia up and it's with justin nice jab by geachie
06:25it's when justin grabs that single he fakes a single then grabs and up throws an uppercut
06:36the timing of that jab is nice topordia to the body continues to invest in that old leg kick as
06:44well that uppercut by justin is landing
06:54topordia closes the distance
06:54geachie particularly sharp early topordia closes the distance right hand partially lands for geachie
07:04oh another jab they've traded jabs there oh yeah but geachie is solid
07:13oh another uppercut there in tight when topordia closes the distance justin grabs his leg and it
07:19throws an uppercut of the middle under two now to go in round one topordia is going to just keep
07:26pressing though oh justin beautiful right hand couldn't ask for a much better start for justin
07:36geachie close plus 350 or so trading at 29 right now and polymark and a big right hand from geachie
07:45huge opening round so far for the challenger
07:53but you also know the danger is always there from topordia
07:57but as you get damage put on you you lose power before you better get going
08:03oh right hand by topordia and a left hook behind it
08:10geachie's still able to follow up with his own offense now looks about
08:12let's look back to poria inside
08:16and ilia just throws hard whenever he gets him close he talks about his his ability in the pocket
08:25oh they're trading early
08:29oh
08:30oh my goodness these dudes are going at it this is wild
08:36an absolutely incredible start to round one
08:41this is a crazy pace too crazy
08:48topordia's got under 30 seconds to make good on his round one knockout prediction
08:52geachie goes high nice left hook to the body but the point right hand over the top good combination by
08:58ilia
08:59i mean he's got to throw it oh nice body shot
09:05up to the body oh right hand
09:08late pressure in the round from topordia
09:11the body shot is nasty
09:13oh and geachie with a nice right on the inside
09:17wow what a round
09:19possible five for the ufc lightweight title
09:25geachie started to stand a little bit in front of to pour you too much
09:30ilia is so explosive you cannot allow him to set his feet
09:42the thing about geachie is ilia is a little shorter than him so when he enters
09:46geachie just kind of puts his jab out there and lets him run into it
09:51you see that yep and now but now ilia is fainting before he moves in to try to lure out
09:56lure out that jab
09:59oh
09:59to the body
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10:12that fate has changed it already look at it he's got him reaching
10:18topordia connects to the net oh and both guys land on that exchange
10:29oh another uppercut topordia continuing his investment in the body just prior
10:35topordia just presses you forward with that measured forward pressure
10:45i love that single leg to the collar tie uppercut by geachie
10:50topordia is bleeding from the nose now as well
11:00geachie jab momentarily keeps topordia at bay now a nice jab from the champ
11:06right hand by topordia geachie seems to be kind of rolling as topordia throws the right hand oh that's
11:12a huge right from geachie topordia with a great chin ate it pretty well
11:16i did that by justin oh yeah good job oh nice
11:23look at it again
11:27body man that body's hurting oh what a big right hand for topordia geachie fires back as usual
11:33that left hook to the body is money for teporia
11:35teporia's left hook is real powerful here it comes in there it is rips to the body
11:42right in front of us oh to the liver that would hurt him again
11:50oh
11:51oh geachie just out of range with the uppercutters topordia continues to apply pressure
11:55reset there from geachie oh the point with an uppercut there he's digging that body shot
12:01geachie's trying everything
12:02here comes that left hand yup geachie's trying to tuck the elbows oh my goodness
12:16he's in a world of trouble real trouble here
12:31he's got his back
12:42oh
12:43to 40 appeals on the armbar for now i mean that body work was crazy by toporia and we have
12:48seen him
12:49do this before on multiple occasions look for the triangle here oh toporia is going triangle from the top
12:55Watch her out, Justin!
12:578 wins by submission for the BJJ Black Belt, Topurnia!
13:01And now he can switch arm bar!
13:08He's gonna roll him over with the leg.
13:10Oh, that was nice, Joe!
13:11Beautiful!
13:13Justin's gotta come up now!
13:15There it is!
13:17Topurnia got side control!
13:19KG's staying spot in the face of pressure,
13:21about to get mounted here!
13:23I mean, Illy is grappling as a lead, too.
13:26You see that right now,
13:27the way he's moving around Gaethje.
13:31Lot of energy expended on both sides.
13:33A lot of offense from Topurnia.
13:36Gaethje's gotta be trying to find a way to get to the end of this round.
13:40USA! USA! USA!
13:43Those body shots are very tired.
13:46Illy is showing some signs of fatigue right now as well.
13:49Really went forward in the second round.
13:52I mean, the pace is insane.
13:55I mean, the pace is insane.
14:05He may be bridging this out.
14:06Yeah.
14:06Oh, he has to, right?
14:07This round's at the back.
14:08This is Illyia's round.
14:10Illyia fought a tremendous second round.
14:11Heard a bad for the body.
14:12Looked like he was gonna finish it.
14:14But now Justin gets to go to his stool, try to recover, and try to refocus for a third round.
14:20What a fight!
14:20And a critical 60 seconds on the stool.
14:24And again, with pointed advice, he wants forward motion.
14:28We'll see.
14:29His scene is so surreal.
14:30The fog is rolling through the cage.
14:32Yeah.
14:33This fight is incredible.
14:34He wants Gaethje pressing forward.
14:36He said he's allowing Topurnia to back him up.
14:38This is good for Gaethje.
14:40Get close.
14:40Get in contact.
14:41Try to clinch and hold him.
14:43Because Illyia, I mean, both of them are fatigued.
14:45The pace has been so high.
14:46Ooh.
14:47But Illyia did look a little tired going back to the end of that round.
14:50No!
14:50I'll get left!
14:51I'll get left!
14:53I'll get you!
14:54In addition!
14:55No!
14:56Two days!
14:57Topurnia landing a remarkable 72% off of his significant strikes.
15:03John, 60-something percent in the first round, 70 in the second.
15:07It's crazy.
15:08He does appear to be a little bit fatigued.
15:10Coach Dean Thomas, what do you got?
15:11This is a bad spot for Gaethje.
15:14It seems, physically, at times, he ended that round bad.
15:16But it's not all that bad for him because he's been in these wars before
15:19He's got to be able to draw from that experience and take
15:24We've never seen to Borja in a war so Gaethje does have some advantages as the way this fight is
15:29playing out
15:29And there was the low kick from Gaethje and that was what Trevor Whitman was calling for in the corner
15:34said he's not gonna
15:34Anticipate it. He landed it hard. Well, Ilya is waiting because he's trying to get his second win
15:39Justin's gotta get the right right now not allowed for him to rebuild his win
15:43That's a great read champ. Ilya Topori has been 25 minutes in the UFC against Josh Emmett back in
15:482023 was a fight of the night, but largely it was one-way traffic, right? And that's the difference, right?
15:53He's taken damage. He's been hit, but if you're Justin, you want to do what Trevor Whitman said. You got
15:58to start kicking that leg
15:59Justin looks fresher right now. Ilya looks like he really drained himself trying to finish
16:04And he looks much slower right now
16:06And there's like a power threat still because he is so hard, but that threat goes down from 10 to
16:12like six
16:13When you start getting it around three four five
16:16Well, and I don't have to tell you guys but wrestling and grappling is exhausting Gaethje oftentimes will say he
16:21doesn't wrestle a lot in MMA because
16:23He's worried about it, but there's that jab again by Gaethje Gaethje looks the fresher fighter
16:29Oh
16:30Huge right for Gaethje Gaethje
16:33Don't show, don't show, don't show
16:36He hurt Toporiya bad
16:40Toporiya was almost standing in front of him just waiting
16:44Hard to see the extent to which Toporiya has recovered
16:46Huge moment for Gaethje midway through round three
16:50What a huge moment
16:53ETH
16:54USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
17:01Toporiya back to his feet
17:03Toporiya is in trouble
17:04He's beat bam! Look at his face
17:06We've never seen Elliot Toporiya like this before
17:10His face battered
17:13Cut over the right eye
17:15demonstrate
17:15over the left and that's not going to help matters even if partially blocked
17:21look at his face his face is destroyed right now we've never seen him like this
17:27and when toporia throws offense gaethje now making him pay but gaethje's got to press a
17:32little bit because like you said i think that was such a great point dean's point
17:37toporia has not experienced these wars we've seen gaethje in these constantly
17:43but we're still only in the third yeah he's got to save some but if gaethje actually allows for
17:49him to build back into this fight but i believe that ilia will start to take over again perhaps
17:55but if gaethje can still do this if ilia really wants out and if he can continue to chip away
18:01at
18:01him like this another right hand there landed by gaethje
18:08right hand again ilia's in real trouble look at his face oh gaethje almost fell over
18:16oh
18:25here's a chance you can imagine how raucous it is over on the ellipse right now one minute now to
18:31go
18:31round three toporia fires back he's searching for that body shot again
18:37oh nice right hand by the champ knowledge by gaethje
18:43he has heard it to pour you back with that right hand
18:48corporia circles away body language not ideal
18:54oh my goodness this is crazy this is crazy we have never seen the champion look like this in a
19:01fight
19:02before gaethje presses forward with a knee
19:09justin earlier's career with throw leg kicks from inside the clinch
19:15so portia's only fought a handful of times at lightweight in the ufc this is first title defense
19:20tonight oh my goodness that was a massive round for gaethje nice knee to the leg there by gaethje
19:27the tie turns in round three
19:34championship rounds are brought to you by ram trucks nothing stops ram
19:40seemed like the doctor was ready to stop the fight
19:46we will continue now with round four but if you're to pour you you got two minutes in between
19:52you got to take advantage of the extra time you got to recover
19:55and it was exactly a full extra minute on the screws two minutes between rounds that's great yeah but then
20:02one of our producers said gaethje did too but gaethje wasn't the one that was struggling as bad
20:07with the cardio exactly and he wasn't the one that was hurt badly
20:11and ilion looks better already and i'm not seeing this
20:15oh a minute i'm just seeing that he looks like he's ready to fight now
20:21but that guy would not quit
20:23he's not going to quit on himself he's going to keep trying to find another hard right hand
20:27he's not seeing that oh beautiful throw by gaethje yo this this is so smart to just make him make
20:34him make him make a fight he has to make it work in every situation
20:38so going to cover it up gaethje continues to throw off that's his way
20:45they're talking to each other oh shoot shot from gaethje
20:55nice jab from justin
20:59nice leg kick there by teporia what an absolute war for the lightweight title
21:06i have never seen ilia teporia's face this beat up no just not gonna be close justin gaethje hit
21:12so hard that is what guys have said when we asked all those great lightweights
21:16courier yes who hit you the hardest they said justin gaethje almost unanimously well coming in
21:22here topuri had two minutes and 27 seconds of flight time against an elite lightweight gaethje had
21:28hours so there were a lot of advantages that maybe the public didn't see on the gaethje side
21:33he's got a lead here with eight or so minutes also gaethje is physically a much larger man oh another
21:39right hand ilia just touched his left eye and just kind of like almost gestured at him
21:46look at the swelling around that left eye it's crazy
21:55ilia teporia oh nice right in by teporia that might hurt gaethje
22:01that was a big right hand
22:08it changed whenever gaethje was the one that started taking the center
22:11teporia seems to be in turn on going forward again
22:14gaethje mixes it oh now a knee teporia the body in a right hand
22:19gaethje circles out under two and a half to go round four
22:28oh
22:29and immediately answered by gaethje that uppercut hurt him
22:36yeah that might be he's hurt yeah there's a bone protrusion on the right side there oh my goodness
22:52it's just so used to oh and you gotta think that that right eye swelling up like that left eye
22:58swelling
22:59like that oh oh that was a nice job by the truck isolating that front of the eye
23:11and that's the reaction perhaps from topo
23:24i gotta give it to the boy man at the end of that third round it looked like he was
23:29done this
23:29and he is fighting a really good fourth round now this is a terrible situation for justin
23:36oh elbow to be this exhausted and to get mounted like this
23:40i mean we might be going to do a round a fifth round where this thing is two to two
23:45yeah
23:46because teporia has fought a really good fourth round
23:49and justin can explode out of this he's almost out oh okay
23:59she jumps out of harm's way
24:03to putia and gaethje have each landed 131 total strikes
24:08he gets a quick check
24:13to putia with a take down or it looked like a good entry
24:23that's not a good sign for tepori that he bailed on that takedown attempt
24:26well justin got his hips down cagey needs to be punching though he's got to be working
24:31he's got to try to make ilia work through this last 20 20 seconds as well 10 seconds
24:44he's in serious pain from that shot to the body
24:47that knee hurt him bad gaethje is tired
24:55okay
24:58he just said something to his brother watching no no no we finished the fight we finished the fight
25:03i don't know it's almost like he's trying to not that's it and that'll do that's it
25:09and new oh my goodness justin gaethje with the ultimate career capstone at the world
25:20he retired on his stool oh my goodness
25:25ilia topordia's brother trying to say we're going to finish the fight but topordia could not
25:29do it and new unbelievable geez down now the american justin gaethje one of the great upsets in the
25:40history of the sport that's crazy that's one of the biggest upsets especially with how bad ilia had
25:48in the second round come on well perhaps in terms of the betting line but given everything that justin gaethje
25:55had accomplished in this lightweight division
25:59you've got to think some segment of the fan base and the pundits are not surprised that he was able
26:04to
26:05get his grand of violence on ilia topordia i mean we talk about this constantly he is just the master
26:13of brutality and he just systematically broke ilia topordia down he was hurt bad at times in this fight
26:20and he was able to just keep fighting it i mean one of the biggest upsets i've seen i i
26:26mean that was
26:26a uphill battle from the moment this fight was announced that justin gaethje would
26:31gaethje will talk to him next as we roll on where this is paramount plus
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27:02and only on paramount plus all right one final time tonight here is bruce buffett
27:08ladies and gentlemen at the end of the fourth round your winner by tko due to corner stoppage
27:16and
27:19undisputed
27:21undisputed
27:22ufc lightweight champion of the world
27:28justin the highland
27:33game
27:35game
27:46ladies and gentlemen i am here with the winner and new ufc lightweight champion of the world
27:54he is
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