UFC 319 could have seen the return of Belal Muhammad.
Prime Minister MMA promotion finds his way back to Chicago for the first time in six years with UFC 319 this Saturday. Champion Dricus du Plessis and the unbeaten Khamzat Chimaev meeting for the middleweight title in the main event of the evening.
Du Plessis had the reception in chicago and with the reception on Thursday, we mean dozens of anger of a pro-chimaev-Mermany at the UFC 319 press conference.
Chicago's former welterweight champion Belal Muhammad loved what he saw of the fans and expressed his wish to fight for them at home.
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Belal Muhammad wanted to fight against Kamaru Usman on UFC 319
From a title loss for Jack della Maddalena in the main event of UFC 315 in May, Muhammad said that UFC 319 attracted his interest in his hometown.
However, it takes two for Tango, and Muhammad says that he could not get a fight with former Welterweight Kamaru Usman champion.
“100%, I wanted to fight on this map,” Muhammad told the Schmo.
“It would have been epic to fight in the United Center, but we couldn't find Kamaru,” said Muhammad.
“So hopefully we get something from him soon.”
Usman recently broke a three-fighting Skid with a dominant decision victory over Joaquin Buckley in June.
“It's the only one who really makes sense,” said Mohammed about a fight with Usman.
“We just had to let his manager stop protecting him,” Muhammad joked, while he and Usman have the same manager Ali Abdelaziz.
Kamaru Usman and Belal Muhammad have history
Muhammad and Usman do not see exactly eye to eye in the Welterweight Division.
The former champions were concerned with a physical exchange of words when the then camp Muhammad was on Usman's Pound 4 podcast.
Muhammad claims that Usman cried before they succeeded on the set, with Henry Cejudo trying to separate them.
The podcast episode or images of the incident were never released, so many fans wondered who would win in a real UFC fight.