It is almost impossible for Dana White and the UFC to not give Belal Muhammad a welterweight title shot. The 35-year-old contender is on a ten-fight unbeaten streak, including a short-notice victory over the ever-dangerous Gilbert Burns last year.

With #1 ranked Kamaru Usman‘s return to welterweight uncertain, having fought Khamzat Chimaev at middleweight in his last outing and Colby Covington out of the way, the #2 ranked Muhammad is the clear candidate for a title shot, or so he believes.

Muhammad thinks Dana White lied about offering Edwards 3 opponents

It is almost impossible for the UFC to not have Belal Muhammad fight for the 170-pound title next. But, that is exactly what the UFC tried to do. Dana White revealed recently that he had offered Leon Edwards three possible opponents for a potential UFC 300 main event bout. None, however, named Belal Muhammad.

The Chicago native is, nevertheless, not dissuaded and felt that he would fight for the title soon, he said in a recent interview with ‘SiriusXM’. On being asked how he felt after learning that the UFC had offered Edwards three opponents other than him for UFC 300, Muhammad was skeptical.

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The #2 ranked welterweight felt that since #3 ranked Shavkat Rakhmonov was hurt and Khamzat Chimaev was very unlikely to make 170, Dana White had only offered the Englishman Islam Makhachev, who turned the bout down due to Ramadan.

“Man if I’m being honest I don’t buy the whole they offered him three fights. I know they offered him Islam, I know Islam turned it down. I don’t buy they offered Shavkat, Shavkat was hurt. I don’t buy they offered him Khamzat, ‘cos he ain’t making weight,” he said. And Muhammad had an interesting theory behind why the UFC boss had purportedly lied about the fights he had offered ‘Rocky’.

Muhammad explains the UFC’s PR tactics

Belal Muhammad felt that since Leon Edwards was a laid-back, reserved kind of guy who wasn’t really interested in promoting himself and making headlines, Dana White was doing his part as the promoter to create hype for the Englishman by telling the media that he had accepted all three opponents offered to him.

“So for me, it was more so to hype up the Leon thing. Leon doesn’t go on social media, he doesn’t do interviews, he doesn’t hype himself up. Dana White’s a promoter. He had to promote the guy and be like ‘This guy’s a killer, he said yes to every single fight,'” Muhammad said.

Whatever the truth about how many fights Dana White offered Edwards may be, it is clear and worth reiterating that Belal Muhammad deserves to fight for the title next. And Edwards, if Dana White’s claims of not turning down any opponent are true, will not say no to Belal Muhammad.

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