{"id":306245,"date":"2019-03-19T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=306245"},"modified":"2019-03-19T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T21:23:12","slug":"video-kamaru-usman-explains-marty-from-nebraska-nickname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-kamaru-usman-explains-marty-from-nebraska-nickname\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Kamaru Usman explains &#8216;Marty from Nebraska&#8217; nickname"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Ben Askren Calls Kamaru Usman &quot;Marty From Nebraska&quot; | Joe Rogan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tuud6xfvsGw?start=240&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[My high school wrestling coach] is reading the roll sheet calling names and he goes, &#8216;Kfam..Kamar&#8230; Who the? Who is this kid? Who the f*ck is this kid?'&#8221; Kamaru Usman shared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rwiGxmYJTEI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Joe Rogan Experience (opens in a new tab)\">Joe Rogan Experience<\/a> podcast. &#8220;And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;That&#8217;s me, coach&#8230;&#8217; That&#8217;s your name?! I&#8217;m like yeah, he&#8217;s like, &#8216;I&#8217;m not saying that!&#8217; Cause my full name is Kamarudeen. He&#8217;s like, &#8216;I&#8217;m not gonna say that! Like, Kamardien, Kamardy&#8230; I&#8217;m gonna call you Marty,&#8217; And I&#8217;m just like, &#8216;Yeah sure, coach&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m 5-foot-3, 100-pounds, I&#8217;m scared of this guy and I&#8217;m like sure. I mean, you&#8217;re a kid, you don&#8217;t care. You&#8217;re gonna have nicknames growing up. Now the whole team&#8217;s calling me Marty. I love that coach, he essentially changed the course of my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It seemed to work,&#8221; He continued. &#8220;It worked so well to where&#8230; This is the thing about nicknames, if you&#8217;re a guy who&#8217;s just a regular average guy and you suck&#8230; Your name dies with you. You move on, no one cares. But if you&#8217;re doing something incredible, something spectacular, that name lives on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So now Marty went from just everyone on the team calling me Marty to  where people knew about the wrestling, around the wrestling circuit in high school they&#8217;re calling me Marty. &#8216;Oh, Marty, that kid&#8217;s good,&#8217; And now college coaches are calling like, &#8216;I wanna recruit this kid\u2026 This Kamarudeen kid. Oh! Marty?&#8217; So now they all know me as Marty. So now I go to college, and all the coaches are calling me Marty\u2026 And now the college team is calling me Marty. Now here&#8217;s the situation with this whole Ben Askren thing\u2026 Like I just mentioned, if I was just a regular guy who sucked, no one cares. No one knows your name, you die out. But because I made waves\u2026 I was that Marty kid that wrestled at Nebraska that was beating the sh*t out of everyone. Division I, II, II, NIA, JuCo, it doesn&#8217;t matter. Ben knows of me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Askren may have brought back an old nickname of Kamaru Usman&#8217;s, but it&#8217;s safe to say that Kamarudeen is definitely not just some regular guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> After recently defeating Tyron Woodley at UFC 235 via <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tyron-woodley\/ufc-235-results-kamaru-usman-defeats-tyron-woodley-highlights\/\">a stunningly one-sided unanimous decision<\/a>, the new champion proved that he&#8217;s the very best welterweight on the planet today. The win would extend Usman&#8217;s current winning streak to 14. 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