Belal Muhammad is getting into his UFC 304 title struggle in opposition to Leon Edwards with loads of confidence.
Muhammad is ready to struggle Edwards for the second time, as their first struggle in 2021 was a No Contest resulting from an unintentional eye poke. Coming into the rematch, which can be Muhammad’s first crack at UFC gold, ‘Keep in mind The Identify’ not solely thinks he’ll beat Edwards however says he plans to make it look straightforward.
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“I don’t suppose he’s the hardest matchup for me. Once I take a look at it stylistically, I feel I’m his kryptonite, I feel that the final couple of fights he’s had, he’s been in a position to dictate the tempo and dictate the gap,” Belal Muhammad stated on The Anik & Florida podcast. “The Usman third struggle, Usman wasn’t the identical Usman, Usman was in there hesitant, he wasn’t throwing. I assumed Usman regarded worse than Leon regarded higher. Within the Colby struggle, they threw 60 strikes in a five-round struggle, and he nonetheless gassed out within the fifth spherical, like how?
“When all these individuals provide you with, he regarded higher on this struggle, he dominated the 2 greatest welterweights on this planet, I don’t suppose he did. I’m going to indicate, and truthfully, after I do it, I’m going to make it look straightforward. It’s going to be a type of issues the place persons are going to say possibly he had meals poisoning or one thing, or possibly he was sick, there needs to be one thing that went flawed,” Muhammad added.
Though Belal Muhammad thinks he’ll make it look straightforward, oddsmakers don’t agree. FanDuel at present has Muhammad as a +162 underdog whereas Edwards is a -210 favourite.
However, if Muhammad does pull off the upset and defeat Leon Edwards at UFC 304, it could be a statement-making efficiency and he would show loads of doubters flawed.
Muhammad is at present 23-3 with one No-contest within the UFC and is using a 10-fight unbeaten streak and has notable wins over Gilbert Burns, Sean Brady, Vicente Luque, Stephen Thompson, and Demain Maia amongst others.