Ian Machado Garry thinks it’s a no brainer that Belal Muhammad ought to get the following UFC welterweight title shot.
Unbeaten in his previous 10 fights, most just lately defeating former title challenger Gilbert Burns at UFC 288, Muhammad (23-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC) has been campaigning for a title shot however to no avail. Garry (14-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) took an enormous step towards the higher echelon of the division when he defeated Geoff Neal at UFC 298. He’s eyeing Colby Covington subsequent and desires to see welterweight champion Leon Edwards defend his title towards Muhammad so the division can transfer ahead.
“I don’t perceive this, I actually don’t,” Garry stated on “The MMA Hour.” “I see it like, for the UFC – Dana at all times speaks about how he desires to maneuver the division, he desires to maintain the champions lively, and he desires to get the following man in movement. I perceive that the build-up for Belal and Leon won’t be probably the most entertaining on the earth. They’re not probably the most entertaining to hearken to, or the press convention isn’t going to be that massive of a build-up.
“However like all the pieces that’s happening in my life in the mean time, if the battle goes to dwell up and be adequate stylistically, why not make it occur? Why not simply discuss in regards to the combating? Leon is an outstanding fighter. Belal is an outstanding fighter. So allow them to go at one another and allow them to see who’s the perfect within the welterweight division in the mean time. I imagine they completely ought to make that battle.”
UFC CEO Dana White praised Edwards for accepting each battle provide, however Muhammad seems to suggest that he wasn’t one in every of them – regardless of constantly being one in every of few fighters keen to battle throughout Ramadan, which finishes simply days earlier than UFC 300 on April 13.
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