The UFC 310 pay-per-view (PPV) occasion is lower than a month away and nonetheless doesn’t have a five-round predominant occasion after present welterweight champion, Belal Muhammad, withdrew from the Las Vegas fight card to recuperate from a nasty infection.
There was discuss of getting former 170-pound titleholder, Kamaru Usman, step in to battle undefeated contender Shavkat Rakhmonov; nevertheless, “The Nigerian Nightmare” has handed on that chance as a result of Dec. 7 is “too early” to battle.
“To be trustworthy, it’s a battle that I’ve checked out and I do know it’s positively a really, very winnable battle and I do know that I can, of all individuals, go on the market and expose what hasn’t been uncovered in a younger, hungry, streaky man in Shavkat Rakhmonov,” Usman stated on Pound 4 Pound. “He’s very gifted, he’s very, excellent however I do see the holes and I believe that I can exploit that when that point is correct however December 7 is likely to be slightly too early for that point.”
Muhammad insists his restoration timeline will solely take about six weeks and rejected talk of an interim title in his absence. No matter when and the place “Bear in mind the Identify” returns, matchmakers nonetheless need to fill the UFC 310 headliner, which stays vacant.
