Alicante and the martial arts fighter Ilia Topuria walk hand in hand to make history. The City Council will install a giant screen in the judo room of the Technique Center in the early hours of February 17 to 18 to watch the fight for the UFC featherweight world championship that pits ‘El Matador’ against Aleksander Volkanovski.
The Alicante City Council is betting on its most media ambassador who has more and more followers in the world and in the provincial capital. It is common to see the mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala, showing his support for the fighter, who since the age of 15 has been living in ‘la terreta’ where he lives with his family.
The last time they saw each other was in Fitur. The first mayor gave him a flag of Alicante, which he considers his home, so that he could proudly display it in the United States. Although Ilia was born in Germany, her heart is in Alicante and she feels like another Alicante native, as she has stated in many interviews.
About twenty fences
Topuria could become the first Spaniard to rise to the top of the UFC. The City Council knows the significance that the historic fight will have for the fighter and for the city itself. For this reason, it has launched a campaign on around twenty municipal billboards spread throughout the city with the slogan ‘Alicante with Ilia Topuria’.
As this newspaper has learned, the billboards and the giant screen will not be the only actions to support Ilia, the most important Alicante athlete and ambassador in recent decades. The City Council will make public more expressions of affection for the athlete in the coming days.
Since last Friday, January 26, ‘El Matador’ and his team have been in the United States preparing the final phase of training prior to the historic combat that will be held in the Californian city of Anaheim.
Eurosport, the channel that will show the fight that will take place around 6 in the morning, published a promotional video on its social networks showing the Alicante Bullring. The impact that the ‘millor terreta del món’ has and will have on the Hispano-Georgian fighter has no limits. Alicante loves Topuria and Topuria loves Alicante.
2024-02-08 21:14:21
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