{"id":237926,"date":"2026-04-11T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/ilia-topuria-i-was-surprised-how-involved-cristiano-ronaldo-has-been\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:22:14","slug":"ilia-topuria-i-was-surprised-how-involved-cristiano-ronaldo-has-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/ilia-topuria-i-was-surprised-how-involved-cristiano-ronaldo-has-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria: &#8220;I was surprised how involved Cristiano Ronaldo has been&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"capital-letter\">W<\/span>hile waiting to see <strong>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong> at a WOW FC event, <strong>Ilia Topuria<\/strong> is full of praise for his business partner. CR7 joined the WOW FC family at the end of 2025, and did so in style, partnering with the &#8216;Matador&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish-Georgian double champion spoke about those first months of partnership in a recent interview with MARCA:<strong>&#8220;I have been surprised how involved Cristiano has been from the moment he has been part of this family,<\/strong> always offering his help, always willing to do whatever it takes,&#8221; Topuria began when asked about Cristiano, whom he welcomed with open arms at WOW FC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"ue-c-article__blockquote\">\n<p>Always offering his help, always willing to do whatever it takes<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__blockquote-author\">Ilia Topuria<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Topuria confirmed the Portuguese star&#8217;s passion for combat sports: <strong>&#8220;He is really a lover of the sport, he really likes contact sports and the truth is that he is looking forward to attending an event of WOW.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"ue-c-article__blockquote\">\n<p>He is a real sports lover, he really likes contact sports<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__blockquote-author\">Ilia Topuria<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A situation that has not yet happened&#8230; but it came close to happening. <strong>&#8220;He was in one of them very close to coming, then things happened to him, but hey, surely great things await us ahead. Surely. At some point, surely,&#8221;<\/strong> commented the &#8216;Matador&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/ufc\/2026\/04\/11\/69da204ce2704e35548b45ad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While waiting to see Cristiano Ronaldo at a WOW FC event, Ilia Topuria is full of praise for his business partner. CR7 joined the WOW FC family at the end of 2025, and did so in style, partnering with the &#8216;Matador&#8217;. The Spanish-Georgian double champion spoke about those first months of partnership in a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6808],"tags":[503,44603,2726,679],"class_list":{"0":"post-237926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-cristiano-ronaldo-english","9":"tag-ilia-topuria-english","10":"tag-ufc","11":"tag-ufc-english"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}