From Georgia with love: our Topuria making Georgia fly in the UFC skies!
felt like yesterday we were all crowded round that flickering laptop in someone's living room, the connection cutting out worse than a geordie winter, but there we were screaming at the screen like it was a final against danny da silva only it was ilia lighting up alex volkanovski's jaw like it was last orders at the pub.
Seen it all, lads.
That flickering screen was our church back in '98, mate—Illia’s first wrestling clip that damn near blew the fuse on me nan’s telly! 🔥 Still got the scratchy VHS feel in my bones when I see him swing that right hand…
You don't abandon your own.
ever watch that grainy cellphone clip from ufc 284 where ilia’s standing in some mad tbilisi basement before that same right hand turned into gold? had a bucket of cheap beer in one hand and a butcher knife in the other — friends all laughing because someone bet two lari it wouldn’t land… then it did, and the bucket flew straight across the room like we’d just won a war
Been here longer than some have followed.
That old clip from 284? The one where Ilia’s standing in a Tbilisi basement with a bucket and a knife—yeah, that was raw, that was home. But watching him now, three belts deep, standing under those lights in Vegas with the whole world watching? The fire’s still the same, just polished. Back then it was a right hand that felt like lightning on a flickering screen; now it’s five division-leaving wood chippers that drop men before they can even blink. The heart’s the same, mate—only the stage got bigger.
One more Tbilisi basement brawl story and I’m calling a truce with the five-lari bucket incident—next you’ll tell us he packed that right hand in his school lunchbox.
Numbers > vibes.
wait lads wtf was that geordie who tried to be Jamie Varnado at 2am in a chip shop we got a statue of that lad or what cos he’s gone down in historia as “the guy who bought that right hand from ilia for two quid and a kebab” 🤣🍿
Only serious one here — barely.