Welterweight champion Belal Muhammad captured the 170-pound title at UFC 304, defeating then-titleholder Leon Edwards by way of unanimous resolution. Whereas he awaits his subsequent opponent, “Keep in mind the Title” has been entertaining potential future matchups. One opponent that Muhammad want to face is former middleweight titleholder Sean Strickland.
Muhammad is aware of that he’ll need to defend the welterweight title a few occasions earlier than difficult for the middleweight strap, however he hopes Strickland has the belt when the time comes. However even when Strickland is not the champion, it is a struggle that Muhammad would transfer as much as middleweight to take.
“I’d like to struggle Sean. It would not even need to be a belt on the road. I’d simply struggle him simply to struggle him at 185,” Muhammad advised Submission Radio. “That might be the struggle I would need at 185.”
“I would slap him round. I would actually go in there and I would slap him round. Sean, after I consider robust fights, Sean’s not certainly one of them,” Muhammad continued. “I feel it could be a straightforward struggle for me. He beats plenty of guys with cardio. I’ve higher cardio than him. He beats plenty of guys with jabs. I’ve higher boxing than him.”
Muhammad not solely believes that he’d beat Strickland, he thinks that he’d ‘make it look straightforward.’
“I feel folks simply take into consideration his final ten seconds of each struggle and he goes loopy. And persons are like, ‘Oh man, Sean is wild and he says wild issues,’ however he fights secure. He fights to not get hit. He fights to not lose,” Muhammad stated. “I feel I’m going in there and I break him with strain. Truthfully, I am going to make it look straightforward.”
Strickland is predicted to confronted middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis in a rematch doubtless within the first quarter of 2025.
