Nobody wants to hear this because it sounds like cope but Ilia Topuria literally lived five years straight with nothing but rocket fuel success. He effortlessly knocks out three all time great champions and we are all kind of in awe of the guy, meanwhile he is getting famous as fuck and has a beautiful family and the company has anointed him their undeniable breakout superstar. Then, a month after winning his second belt, his wife and the mother of his daughter, a woman he most likely loves and trusts, attempts to destroy his life for reasons unknown, sending him into a brutal divorce and custody battle. Have you guys never had a devastating breakup? Take that pain and multiply it by the fear of having your kids taken away (mind you this all took place in Spain, one of the most libtard countries on Earth and his wife was claiming spousal abuse with a very low evidentiary threshold.) Why did he lose? He didn’t want to be there. He was going through the motions, trying to act as if everything was normal, but it wasn’t. His head was fucked, he was off, he wanted to get the quick KO to rebuild his confidence, and he got fucked up badly. Mind you, he’s so good that he still nearly managed the finish. It was an extremely devastating image, none of us really thought he could lose because he’d already made guys far superior to Justin look average. But that’s exactly when things go wrong. Bad idea to write him off, because in reality a massive comedown like this is exactly the kind of thing truly gifted people come back from to become legends and myth.