Former UFC champion Kamaru Usman believes he has earned the suitable to face the winner of the UFC 322 foremost occasion.
For the longest time now, Kamaru Usman has been seen as one of many biggest welterweights within the historical past of combined martial arts. Whereas many would nonetheless put Georges St-Pierre forward of him within the pecking order, others wouldn’t – and that features UFC boss Dana White.
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When it comes to the current day, although, Usman is coming off the again of a win over Joaquin Buckley that helped him break his three-fight shedding streak. On Saturday evening, he might be watching intently as Jack Della Maddalena defends the UFC welterweight championship towards Islam Makhachev in the principle occasion of UFC 322.
Throughout a latest interview, Usman made it identified that he’s serious about difficult the winner for the strap.
Usman desires winner of UFC 322 foremost occasion
“Lots of people had lots of questions: ‘Can he nonetheless struggle? Is he nonetheless this man? Is he nonetheless this fashion?’ I hope I proved that to everybody (towards Buckley),” Usman informed MMA Junkie on Monday. “I’ve my eye on this weekend. We’ll see who comes out victorious (Della Maddalena or Makhachev). I believe it’s a giant struggle, it’s a superb struggle, it’s a tricky struggle for each guys. I’m sitting right here trying on the winner like, ‘All proper, let’s run it.’”
He continued, “I’m ready now to the place I would like the largest, most difficult fights on the market, as a result of I perceive that I don’t have one other 20 fights left within the firm. Something may occur, so if you may get that subsequent one and it may very well be that struggle, then that’s what I would like.”
“It’s not that I’ve had conversations, as a result of the UFC is gonna do what they really feel is greatest for them. You simply must let it play out, and so they’re gonna do what they really feel is greatest for them. Hopefully that’s me,” Usman mentioned. “‘Deserve’ is just not a phrase that I like to make use of rather a lot. I don’t like that phrase. Nobody deserves something.
“I believe it’s what you’ve earned, and if the corporate feels that I’ve earned that shot … I’ve confirmed them I’m nonetheless that man. Hopefully (the win over Buckley) is sufficient to present them that I’m prepared to return and sit on my rightful place, which is the highest of the division, and undergo these guys one after the other once more.”
Quotes by way of MMA Junkie
