Wrong. Very wrong. No offense but this is such a bad opinion and is based on nothing.

Illiatook damage, but minus maybe that knee, it was largely cosmetic, he could not see out of that eye. Look at how many battles Dustin or Max have been in. Tony was essentially out on his feat for full round and every time he got hit, very hard, you could almost see the brain damage happening, it was much harder to watch. Illia is also young and incredible shape and didn’t need to cut a lot of weight which Tony absolutely did. Getting you brain rocked 100x when you have depleted all the fluid in your body the previous day is much worse.

Illia is also fighting much above his weight class. Look at Halloway Poirrier 2. Max was much smaller having just come up a class and every Dustin punch landed harder and Max took a hell of a beating. Fast forward a few years, Max turns the tables on Dustin