This weekend’s UFC foremost match between Leon Edwards and Belal Muhammad would possibly maybe maybe maybe successfully judge the identification of a future recipient of a welterweight title shot, nonetheless it’d moreover bound a lengthy components to deciding on Colby Covington’s next opponent.
The brash Covington has been absent from the cage since a one-sided take in opposition to Tyron Woodley final year, a wrestle in which he rebounded from the TKO defeat he suffered in opposition to Kamaru Usman in his maiden world title shot in December 2019. Since then, just a few names have tried to tempt him to come befriend, most no longer too lengthy within the past Leon Edwards, nonetheless Belal Muhammad says that he’ll situation himself firmly within the dialog if and when he defeats Edwards unhurried Saturday night.
And as he told the media in Las Vegas, including TheMacLife, this would possibly maybe maybe be a pleasure to punch that man within the face.
“I’m no longer going to be conception to be one of those guys that’s going to sit down, especially if it’s Colby Covington,” Muhammad stated of his doable next pass. “After this wrestle, that’s who’s next and I despise that man’s guts. If I ever look for that man within the avenue I’m hitting him.
“Clearly that’s a wrestle I would wish forward of Usman, because stylistically that’s a wrestle that is great and that’s going to prepare you for the Usman wrestle, who’s the champion. So for me, it’s moral conserving the momentum going. If I’d back combating, if God willing I’m wholesome, I take this wrestle and within the event that they wanna acquire me befriend here a month later in opposition to Colby, why no longer? I’m down.”
And as for why he feels so strongly, Muhammad explains that — valuable admire a form of the roster — he is drained of Covington’s schtick.
“I moral despise low folks,” Muhammad stated. “You would possibly maybe maybe sit there and snarl, ‘It’s a persona, it’s that.’ However you wanna snarl the issues that he says and the strategy that he talks about folks, the strategy he disrespects folks? I’m from Chicago so those kinds of folks, we don’t suggest you would also talk admire that. So if you snarl something admire that about folks I know, folks I admire, you’re gonna acquire slapped, you’re gonna acquire peril. It’s no longer gonna occur, so for me, that is a sport.
“It’s martial arts, so it’s about respecting folks. The strategy he’s disrespected religion, the strategy he’s disrespected Khabib who’s admire the face of the Muslim MMA neighborhood. For him to total something admire that and to mediate, ‘It’s all fragment of the act.’ This ain’t no act. After we look for nose to nose, you’re gonna know that your act moral received you beat up.”
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