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Gaethje vs Topuria with the commentators muted and the corners turned up

Referee Marc Goddard, coaching shouted in Spanish and Georgian, and a doctor checking Topuria's right eye carry UFC's stripped-back replay.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 944,248 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (67,447).

Justin Gaethje vs Ilia Topuria 🚨 | NO COMMENTARYJustin Gaethje vs Ilia Topuria 🚨 | NO COMMENTARY

Fewer voices, more fight. UFC has reposted Justin Gaethje against Ilia Topuria with the broadcast booth switched off, so what's left is the cage itself: gloves landing, breathing, referee Marc Goddard and the people in each corner.

That changes what you hear. Goddard opens with the plain rule, "When I say stop, you stop." Between rounds, Topuria's team works in Georgian and Spanish, a reminder of a fighter with Georgian roots who grew up in Spain. "Lo estás haciendo todo bien" (you're doing everything right), one voice tells him. On the other side, Gaethje hears "Your jab is money" and, after the second round, "Start pressing him. No more backwards."

The fight itself swings. Gaethje lands heavily in the second before Topuria takes him down and finishes the round on top. Gaethje answers in the third with a takedown of his own and punches from above. Then the replay turns quiet in a different way: Topuria's corner tells officials he cannot see out of his right eye, and Goddard calls for the doctor's assessment.

The upload passed 790,000 views in its first 16 hours, and the comments came in about seventeen times faster than on a usual first day for the channel's longer videos. Many of them are about the format rather than the result. Viewers ask for a commentary-free livestream and for main events to get the same treatment. They praise the overhead angle for showing Gaethje's footwork and say the silence shows off Goddard's refereeing. Gaethje's coach, Trevor Wittman, gets a request for his own microphone at every fight he works.

Two Shorts cut from the same idea also started fast: one asking what happened to Topuria's vision, the other built around a single knee billed as "loud."

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What viewers say

  • Hands down one of the greatest fights of all time.
    @ChasingElizabethSee it on YouTube
  • UFC should have a “No Commentary” livestream where we can just focus on the fight.
    @LoveTexasToastSee it on YouTube
  • The no commentary really shows how good Goddard is as a ref
    @CharlieWink45See it on YouTube
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  • These camera angels are gold.
  • I love the overhead camera angle, you really get to appreciate Justin's footwork.
  • You can really feel the impact of every shot, wow. Crazy how much more raw and real this format made the fight look.
    @SiddharthaKCSee it on YouTube
  • This is gold. I have watched this fight multiple times but this was like watching a whole other fight.
    @michaelvasquez5403See it on YouTube
  • Trevor Wittman is such a good coach, man what a class fight!
    @jocalacmanovicSee it on YouTube
  • I need a Trevor mic for every fight he coaches. Brilliant and so professional.
  • I hope UFC makes this a regular thing for main events and exciting fights
    @Danon-jn6bySee it on YouTube

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The facts
Channel
UFC
Subscribers
23,100,000
Channel views, last 7 days
49,351,225
Channel views, pace per day
1,527,468 (on a normal day: 15,355,984)
Video published
October 9, 2026
Video views so far
790,959 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
944,248

The numbers

A full-length fight replay on a channel this size usually starts slowly. This one did not, and its comment section ran even further ahead of usual than its views.

the video's first day
usual first day here
67,447
this video
944,248
subscribers
23,100,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
12,726,669,683
views per day
1,527,468
typical day: 15,355,984
the video
views
790,959
likes
16,580
comments
2,296
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
WWE
114,000,000
UFC
23,100,000
DAZN Boxing
5,170,000
WWE Vault
4,380,000
Nat Hearn
2,940,000
As of October 10, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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Ilia Topuria's corner shouts in Spanish and in the language of his family's home country. Which country is it?