MMAJunkie.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n\u201cI feel like there\u2019s a lot of guys above me that don\u2019t have fights,\u201d Muhammad said. \u201cI don\u2019t even think Leon has a fight. They\u2019re saying Usman, but I just don\u2019t think Usman\u2019s ready for that yet. So, if Leon\u2019s gonna wait all the way until September, October, it just doesn\u2019t make sense. I think that fight would make sense, but you know what, you guys are gonna post the headline, \u2018He wants to fight Leon.\u2019 And the fans are gonna be like, \u2018He\u2019s such a crybaby,\u2019 poking the hive, blah, blah. So, I don\u2019t even want to call him out because I don\u2019t want to offend anybody.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cLike I said, the two best guys above me that are winning right now are Khamzat and Colby, and neither one of them have fights.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nMuhammad hasn’t lost a fight since Jan. 2019 when he dropped a unanimous decision to Geoff Neal. Since that fight, he has gone 7-0, 1 NC. That one No Contest was against Leon Edwards. The fight came to an end when Belal was accidentally poked in the eye and could not continue.<\/p>\n
Muhammad will find himself in the top five UFC welterweight rankings once the list is updated. He was the sixth-ranked 170-pounder going up against the number five-ranked Luque. Time will tell if he’ll be matched up against Khamzat Chimaev or Colby Covington next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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