Jorge Masvidal thinks it would be a bad idea for Justin Gaethje to step in the octagon with UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria. Gaethje (26-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC) is pushing hard to get the first crack at new 155-pound titleholder Topuria (17-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC), who captured the vacant belt at UFC 317 in June with a first-round knockout of Charles Oliveira.
There are several fighters who have thrown their name in the hat to challenge Topuria, from Gaethje to Arman Tsarukyan to Paddy Pimblett to BMF champ Max Holloway. "El Matador" recently told Nelk Boys that he thinks the UFC brass will push for Gaethje, and Masvidal thinks that's a very, very ill-advised decision.
Masvidal, the inaugural UFC BMF champion from 2019, had admittedly not had much love for Gaethje, who knocked out his teammate and friend Dustin Poirier at UFC 291 in July 2023 to become the second BMF champ. Any tension aside, though, Masvidal simply thinks that is not the more threatening matchup for Topuria. If he had his choice, it would be Tsarukyan (22-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC), who has been beefing with Topuria online and in interviews over the past several weeks, who gets the next shot at gold.
Justin Gaethje is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional since 2011, he is a former UFC Interim Lightweight Champion and a former UFC "BMF" belt holder. Gaethje is the second fighter to win the BMF belt after Jorge Masvidal, winning the title at UFC 291. As of July 22, 2025, he is #5 in the UFC lightweight rankings.
Ilia Topuria is a Georgian and Spanish professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Lightweight Champion. A professional since 2015, Topuria is the former UFC Featherweight Champion, becoming the first Georgian and Spanish fighter to win a UFC championship. As of July 1, 2025, he is #1 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings.
Jorge Masvidal is an American professional boxer and former professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Welterweight and Lightweight divisions. Masvidal competed professionally for 20 years from 2003 until 2023, having fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Bellator, Strikeforce, Shark Fights, and World Victory Road.He holds the record for the fastest knockout in UFC history at five seconds, and won the symbolic UFC "BMF" Championship belt.
While Ben Askren was formerly a world champion MMA fighter and world-renowned wrestler before he nearly lost his life after complications from having pneumonia combined with a severe staph infection (which resulted in him needing a double lung transplant), he was still best known for being at the receiving end of the most viral knockout in UFC history, when Jorge Masvidal jump-kneed him in the head five seconds into a fight.
More recently, Askren fought Jake Paul during a 2021 boxing fight and lost to him via first-round knockout. However, these defeats pale in comparison to the victory he just had with this health scare and ensuing surgery, from which he is now out of the hospital and back home.
Masvidal and Askren had a lot of bad blood before that aforementioned UFC knockout, which had continued for years after it occurred. However, Masvidal set that aside in order to send Askren a heartfelt message in the wake of what he was going through, which included Masvidal saying, "I know we were rivals in the ring. I just want to say, God bless you, and when I get back in America, I could come shake your hand, brother, and just share a prayer with you, it will be amazing, man."
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