UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad and middleweight champ Dricus du Plessis have very completely different impressions about how a combat between them performs out.
There’s a rising urge for food to see UFC light-weight champion Islam Makhachev problem for the welterweight crown, presently in Muhammad’s possession. When requested by Barstool Chicago, Muhammad turned down a possible combat in opposition to his coaching companion. Muhammad urged that he and Makhachev may as a substitute transfer up concurrently in pursuit of champ-champ standing.
“For me, I would quite go to 185 and let [Makhachev] simply take 170,” Muhammad stated. “Since I’ve already needed to combat my approach as much as 170, I’ve overwhelmed 5 top-10 guys, I am two fights away from having the ability to problem for [the middleweight title] and saying, ‘Hey, I wish to be double champ.'”
Muhammad argued that the middleweight division lacks troublesome challenges, excluding high contender Khamzat Chimaev. The welterweight champ dispariged UFC 313’s predominant occasion title combat between Du Plessis and Sean Strickland as a first-rate instance of the burden class’ shallowness.
“I believe 185 might be the best weight class, moreover Khamzat,” Muhammad stated. “While you take a look at that [UFC 312] predominant occasion, you are like, ‘Bro, Strickland and du Plessis suck.'”
Du Plessis scoffed at a possible Muhammad combat. The middleweight champion disregarded Muhammad as bodily insufficient for the 185-pound weight class.
“No, that might be unfair,” du Plessis instructed “The Ariel Helwani Present” on Tuesday. “If I combat Belal Muhammad, it will be unfair. 100%, have you ever seen the scale of the person? What’s he going to do? Is he going to get anyone to assist him? Is he going to sit down on anyone’s neck? How is it going to work? He is the smallest—I could not imagine that he is at 170 once I noticed him. I could not imagine that he fights at 170.
“I step on his head and it is over. That is how that combat goes.”
Du Plessis additionally questioned UFC’s curiosity within the combat. Du Plessis claimed Muhammad would not garner sufficient fan curiosity to enchantment to anybody.
“Belal Muhammad, I am unable to even keep in mind the way in which he fights, I do not know,” du Plessis stated. “Has he ever completed anybody?… I imply, I like how he acts as if he has a option to ever go as much as 185. The UFC won’t ever let him. If he needed to, he’d should abandon his belt, hand over his belt, vacate, and go as much as 185, and there is no approach they offer him a direct title shot. There isn’t any approach. The UFC would not even like Belal Muhammad.”
“He hasn’t even defended his belt as soon as. He is positively higher on Twitter than he’s when he fights.”
