Ilia Topuria is already looking past Charles Oliveira to a potential lightweight showdown with Islam Makhachev. Topuria is set to face Oliveira for Makhachev's vacated lightweight belt at UFC 317. It's not the fight fans wanted,

If things don't work out for Islam Makhachev in his venture to welterweight, he won't have an immediate title shot waiting for him in the lightweight division. At least, that's how it will be if Ilia Topuria has a say in the championship pecking order.

The pair of top pound for pound fighters could have had a superfight over the summer that now appears dead in the water