{"id":40547,"date":"2026-09-17T05:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Ilia-Topurias-brother-reportedly-set-for-UFC-return-in-November-202839"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:41:45","slug":"ilia-topurias-brother-reportedly-set-for-ufc-return-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/ilia-topurias-brother-reportedly-set-for-ufc-return-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria\u2019s brother reportedly set for UFC return in November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ilia
\nTopuria<\/a>\u2019s brother, Aleksandre
\nTopuria<\/a>, is reportedly set to return to action in the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> later this year.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old bantamweight is in talks to face Santiago
\nLuna<\/a> at UFC Qatar<\/a>
\non Nov. 21 in Doha, according to \u00c1lvaro Colmenero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n

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Aleksandre Topuria is in talks to face Santiago Luna at UFC
\nQatar<\/h2>\n

Aleksandre (7-1) hasn\u2019t competed since defeating Bekzat
\nAlmakhan<\/a> by unanimous decision in November last year, which
\nmarked his second UFC win. He hasn\u2019t been active in recent years,
\nprimarily focusing on coaching his brother Ilia, the former
\nfeatherweight and lightweight champion.<\/p>\n

With Ilia having recently lost the lightweight title to Justin
\nGaethje<\/a> at
\nUFC Freedom 250<\/a> and set to return only next year, Aleksandre
\nwill look to pick up his third Octagon victory in November. His
\nopponent, Luna (8-1), is 2-1 in the UFC and is coming off the lone
\ndefeat of his professional career, a submission loss to Bryce
\nMitchell<\/a> this past June.<\/p>\n

The only other rumored bout for the event is a middleweight clash
\nbetween Ikram
\nAliskerov<\/a> and former title challenger Jared
\nCannonier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n

Algunos me hab\u00e9is preguntado respecto a la
\npelea entre Aleksandre
\nTopuria<\/a> y Santiago
\nLuna<\/a>, una info que ha dado @realkevink<\/a><\/p>\n

Lo cierto es que S\u00cd que he escuchado acerca de esta pelea para
\nQatar, pero no hab\u00eda podido confirmar que estuviera cerrada y
\nfirmada<\/p>\n

Ojal\u00e1 que se d\u00e9 \ud83d\udc4c\ud83c\udffb pic.twitter.com\/ziNMA72dwe<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \u00c1lvaro Colmenero (@KOlmeneroMMA)
\nSeptember 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ilia Topuria\u2019s brother, Aleksandre Topuria, is reportedly set to return to action in the Ultimate Fighting Championship later this year. The 30-year-old bantamweight is in talks to face Santiago Luna at UFC Qatar on Nov. 21 in Doha, according to \u00c1lvaro Colmenero. Advertisement Aleksandre Topuria is in talks to face Santiago Luna at UFC Qatar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}