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UFC 298: ILIA TOPURIA KNOCKS OUT ALEXANDER VOLKANOVSKI TO BECOME THE NEW -66 KILOS CHAMPION

Spain's Ilia Topuria dominated Australia's Alexander Volkanovski, the UFC's most dominant current champion, in the main event of UFC 298 on Sunday to become the new -66 kg champion in California.

1527 days later. Australian fighter Alexander Volkanovski (26-4-0), holder of the -66 kilos belt since 2019, fell to rising UFC star Ilia Topuria (15-0-0). The 27-year-old Spaniard knocked out the undisputed champion in round 2 to become the new unbeaten -66 kilos champion.

He becomes the first Spaniard to win a UFC title. After 14 professional MMA fights, he got his chance tonight against the absolute king of the featherweight division Alexander Volkanovski and knocked him out in the second round, adding another victory to his perfect record and achieving a feat that only four fighters had ever achieved: Israel Adsanya, Khabib Numagomedov, Ciryl Gane and Cody Garbrandt.

An invitation to McGregor

After the victory, Ilia Topuria made an appeal to his detractors and to... Conor McGregor: "People will tell you that you can't do it, but the only person you have to prove anything to is yourself. Work hard. Look at me now. I know my skills, I've worked really hard for tonight. I knew I was going to become world champion. I had to give up a lot of combinations. Dana, it's time to shine and bring the UFC to Spain. McGregor, if you still have balls, I'll be waiting for you in Spain."

The victory was won in front of a host of Iberian stars who came to support the man who is carrying the hopes of the UFC in Spain: Riqui Puig, Aron Piper, Alberto Contador and Omar Montes. Star fighters such as Michael Chandler, Sean O'Malley, Josh Emmett, Alexa Grasso and Justin Gaethje were also present. Spanish flags were flying in the Los Angeles crowd, where some 400 fans had made the trip.

Text by BFM TV AC

United States: Donald Trump wants to strip social networks of their protection

On Thursday, the US President signed an executive order aimed at limiting the protection afforded to services such as Twitter and Facebook.

Donald Trump took action on Thursday 28 May. Upset by Twitter's decision to add a link to two messages published on Tuesday stating that it was advancing untruths about the reliability of postal voting, the President of the United States signed an executive order inviting the federal agencies concerned to re-examine the cornerstone on which social networks have developed. This is section 230 (c) of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 law, which states that sites and services that allow Internet users to publish messages are not directly responsible for these messages.

"They have the unchecked power to censor, edit, conceal or alter any form of communication between individuals and large public audiences. There is no precedent in American history for such a small number of companies to control such a large sphere of human interaction", the US President railed against the social networking behemoths. The charge is paradoxical, given that the former businessman built part of his political career on his unbridled use of Twitter. His account now has over 80 million followers.

Source: Le Monde

Trump and Twitter: they loved each other so much.

Nothing is going well between the President and the social network, which - for the first time - reported a tweet from Trump. @realDonaldTrump has promised revenge.

Donald Trump has been on a rampage in recent days. Using his favourite weapon, the tweet, he has accused the host of a political programme of murder - without a shred of evidence, he has mocked Joe Biden for wearing a mask, he has retweeted the rantings of a right-wing extremist who called Hillary Clinton a "whore", he has mentioned conspiracy theories accusing Obama of espionage... He has been saying anything and everything to his 80 million followers for years. With the blessing of Twitter, which has always defended his freedom of expression.

Source: Le Point.fr