Veteran color-commentator, Joe Rogan has claimed former undisputed welterweight titleholder, Kamaru Usman must be subsequent in line to problem newly-minted UFC gold holder, Belal Muhammad — alluding to the truth that the promotion even owes the Auchi native one other probability to reclaim gold.
Usman, who retains the quantity two rank on the welterweight restrict regardless of driving a three-fight dropping run, has been sidelined since he featured on the middleweight restrict in a short-notice UFC 294 co-main occasion again in October.
And struggling a 3rd consecutive loss in an impromptu divisional debut, former pound-for-pound primary, Kamaru Usman dropped a controversial majority choice defeat to the unbeaten, Khamzat Chimaev, which adopted a previous rematch and subsequent rubber-match title combat loss to former champion, Leon Edwards.
Nonetheless, amid the ascension of the above-mentioned, Muhammad to the throne at UFC 304 again in July, Usman has emerged as a possible contender to the throne regardless of his dropping skid — as had the unbeaten ending phenom, Shavkat Rakhmonov.
Joe Rogan backs Kamaru Usman to combat for title subsequent
If he had been to play matchmaker, nonetheless, veteran caller, Rogan claims the promotion ought to aspect with a combat between Muhammad and Kamaru Usman before everything.
“I feel they [the UFC] give him (Belal Muhammad) Kamaru (Usman),” Joe Rogan stated on his podcast The Joe Rogan Expertise. “That’s the massive cash combat. It’s the good combat. They owe Kamaru for Kamaru taking Khamzat (Chimaev) on 10 days’ discover. And likewise, a three-rounder as an alternative of a five-rounder when he received the third (spherical) — it appeared to me like he was approaching within the third.”
“He needed to determine him out, and in addition he needed to belief his gasoline tank,” Rogan defined. “The man skilled ten days for one of many scariest motherf*ckers on Earth — on Earth. I say you gotta give it to Kamaru as a result of I feel Kamaru earned it from that alone. You don’t have many extra years of Kamaru now, he’s like 37. I say give him one other shot. Shavkat (Rakhmonov), with each win he’s a legend. Larger and larger legend.”
