Video: Ilia Topuria Says 'F--k' Conor McGregor for UFC 308 Criticism Post-Holloway KO

Ilia Topuria, fresh off of knocking out Max Holloway at Saturday's UFC 308, didn't take kindly to the since-deleted criticisms leveled at him on social media from Conor McGregor.

"I don't know what to say. F--k him. I'm telling you, f--k him. He fakes a comeback every time, he insults everyone in the UFC, he's like, 'I don't care about anyone, I don't respect anyone.' Bro, you're f--king sick. You have some problems to fix in your f--king mind, you know? You need to take some classes on respect, because you're going to end up really, really bad. When you follow these kind of values in your life, you're gonna end up really bad."

"Call me," McGregor tweeted in a series of since-deleted posts, before adding "Cave his head in handy."

"Good little fighter, too small for anything substantial IMO," he wrote in another deleted post. "He was getting chewed up there."

"Few [featherweights] now in the mix, and I beat every single one of them," he concluded. "I am that division's menace. Point blank. Everyone on that list I hurt badly and finish. Not one of them lay a glove on King Mac."

The 36-year-old McGregor hasn't fought at featherweight since Dec. 2015, when he defeated José Aldo at UFC 194 in a unification fight before later losing it due to inactivity in the division.

He's also lost three of his past four fights in UFC, most famously getting tapped out by Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018 and losing a pair of bouts to Dustin Poirier in 2021. It's been over three years since McGregor has stepped foot in the Octagon, making his trash talk regarding other fighters a bit difficult to take all of that seriously.

But Topuria—who is undefeated in his MMA career (16-0) and the current featherweight champion—certainly took it seriously, and had a strong message for McGregor.

"Ask to God you don't cross paths with me never ever," he told ESPN. "Because I'm gonna f--k you up whenever I'm gonna see you."