UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad and middleweight champ Dricus du Plessis have very completely different impressions about how a battle between them performs out.
There’s a rising urge for food to see UFC light-weight champion Islam Makhachev problem for the welterweight crown, at the moment in Muhammad’s possession. When requested by Barstool Chicago, Muhammad turned down a possible battle towards his coaching associate. Muhammad recommended that he and Makhachev might as a substitute transfer up concurrently in pursuit of champ-champ standing.
“For me, I might moderately go to 185 and let [Makhachev] simply take 170,” Muhammad stated. “Since I’ve already needed to battle my means 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 tough challenges, excluding prime contender Khamzat Chimaev. The welterweight champ dispariged UFC 313’s foremost occasion title battle between Du Plessis and Sean Strickland as a main instance of the load class’ shallowness.
“I believe 185 might be the simplest weight class, in addition to Khamzat,” Muhammad stated. “While you have a look at that [UFC 312] foremost occasion, you are like, ‘Bro, Strickland and du Plessis suck.'”
Du Plessis scoffed at a possible Muhammad battle. The middleweight champion dismissed Muhammad as bodily insufficient for the 185-pound weight class.
“No, that will be unfair,” du Plessis advised “The Ariel Helwani Present” on Tuesday. “If I battle Belal Muhammad, it will be unfair. A hundred percent, have you ever seen the scale of the person? What’s he going to do? Is he going to get any individual to assist him? Is he going to take a seat on any individual’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 battle goes.”
Du Plessis additionally questioned UFC’s curiosity within the battle. Du Plessis claimed Muhammad would not garner sufficient fan curiosity to enchantment to anybody.
“Belal Muhammad, I am unable to even bear 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, quit his belt, vacate, and go as much as 185, and there is no means they provide him a direct title shot. There is no means. 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.”
