“Tears Coming Out His Eyes!” Belal Muhammad Reveals Rival Kamaru Usman Cried During ‘Hidden’ Podcast Altercation

Belal Muhammad reveals new tidbits about physical altercation with 170-pound rival Kamaru Usman during Pound-4-Pound podcast sit-down.

“Tears Coming Out His Eyes!” Belal Muhammad Reveals Rival Kamaru Usman Cried During ‘Hidden’ Podcast Altercation

Belal Muhammad is ready to trade hands with Kamaru Usman (Imago/X)

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Former welterweight champion Belal Muhammad is really keen on pushing the button of former divisional champ and pound-for-pound topper, Kamaru Usman. To that end, ‘Bully Belal’ has had the perfect ammunition to drive up all and any banter: their unreleased podcast altercation!

At the most basic level, a skills test between two former UFC 170lbs champs, Muhammad and Usman, makes sense. However, given their personal history, it’s not surprising that Belal Muhammad is really driving the matter home.

Last year, ‘Remember the Name’ was a guest for a media sit-down on Pound-4-Pound podcast, with Kamaru Usman as co-host. Seemingly, Muhammad went off on “The Nigerian Nightmare”, on a 0-3 slump at that time. Allegedly, the two threw hands.

Pound-4-Pound co-host Henry Cejudo recently confirmed it, saying 7-8 production crew members had to step in to stop them! Muhammad recently gave more details about the unreleased episode in the Pound-4-Pound podcast banks:

I was on his podcast, made him cry, … then [we] threw some blows, then all of the sudden, I don’t know, it got deleted from the cloud and it’s gone, it’s missing! Who knows? …Maybe if we get this fight, they’ll use it for promotion, like the Khabib-Conor bus incident…Usman cried. Tears coming out his eyes, …If you want to see it, maybe that’s why he’s trying to edit it out, find some AI to do something different with it, guy’s ego is so big, when you talk to the guy and tell him, and he realizes he’s not where he was or where he used to be or who he thinks he is, I don’t think he can deal with that.

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Before his UFC 315 appearance or his July PPV main event of UFC 304 in Manchester before that, Belal Muhammad put on a 10-fight string. He had quite the effort over top names like Gilbert Burns, Stephen Thompson, Vicente Luque, Demian Maia, and Sean Brady (only TKO win).

However, those like archenemy Sean Strickland, former champ Leon Edwards, and later even Kamaru Usman, jibed it down. They billed him as a jock-sniffing, lazy-wrestling, decision merchant. Hence, the Palestinian-American star took to his ‘villain’ role well, firing shots whenever and wherever.

If this meant dissing ‘full-time podcaster’ Usman for his career slump and a stalemate since UFC 294 PPV, so be it. Among the podcast video library, this particular episode is yet to see the light of day. So, the hard-hitting specifics are harder to come by. But by the looks of it, Muhammad is enjoying adding fuel to the volatile banter. Even though Usman has rejected a fight with him, ‘Bully B’ is still keen on it.

Belal Muhammad confident of matching up to Kamaru Usman and beating him

UFC Atlanta at State Farm Arena saw Kamaru Usman tag an emphatic win over former surging prospect Joaquin Buckley. After a triumphant return to the ring following a two-year hiatus, Usman cemented his position as one of the top welterweight fighters. He also quickly hinted out that he won without displaying all his full skills, instead using wrestling to stifle and plunder “New Mansa” for five rounds.

Belal Muhammad says he can defeat Kamaru Usman
Belal Muhammad says he can defeat Kamaru Usman (Source: X)

But given all that and the default skills test to make, Kamaru Usman dismissed a battle against rival Belal Muhammad during the UFC Atlanta post-fight presser with a “Who’s Belal?” It received a standout retort from Bully Belal himself.

Belal Muhammad still wants to make this fight even though the rival no-sold the prospect. Usman was one of the OG “Three African Kings,” who went 5-0 in his title reign. While he might have shut it down, Muhammad is still planning on it. He even had some choice words on how it’d go.

When you think of that division, the biggest names, we’re both two of the biggest names in the division, especially right now, …[now] It makes complete sense with the back and forth…He would get dominated, …There’s levels. I’ve been watching him for so long, wanting to fight him for so long, because I know I match up very well with him. He made it look easy against Buckley but you’re not going to take me down. You’re not going to out-strike me. You’re not going to out-cardio me. That’s why I see him trying to avoid the fight.

Belal Muhammad further said

Although that back-and-forth received a lot of attention, Usman never lost sight of his goal: a shot at reclaiming the 170-pound crown that he held on to for over three years. He is opening up the scope of fights with names like Islam Makhachev and Jack Della Maddalena. But Muhammad is utterly set to make it about fighting him and defeating him.

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