How am I "very dumb" and you bright when you literally mentioned Islam Omarov who I mentioned first? holy smokes...That would be an interesting signing and a good fight for Topuria if both keep winning. I'll give you guys a dark horse featherweight that you may see against Ilia one day: Islam Omarov. Currently in the "crush regional cans" phase of his career, but he's slowly eating into top 50 fighters, difficult outside of the UFC/Bellator, and seems like a very interesting future signing.
On topic, OP is very dumb, Ilia is very good, even though the Volk fight has an asterisk next to it due to Volk's recent KO, no one sees the fight going any differently in a rematch as Ilia is an awful, terrible match up for Volk. Too tall, too fast, concrete for hands. Great TDD, extremely competent in ground scrambles. Just want to see Ilia add more kickboxing to his game and he's an absolute monster FW for a long time, best in the world till future notice.
And you mentioned that he's in the "crush regional cans" phase of his career. I didn't knew that Bibert Tumenov, Suleymanov, Polpudnikov, Temirkhanov and others are cans
Also he's already ranked #13 FW in the world by fight matrix, ranked even higher than Bryce Mitchell who is ranked #15 (you know Topuria's top 3 opponent in his entire career)