UFC World Rips Belal Muhammad for “Day Dream” Jon Jones Remark – “Credit to Joe for Keeping a Straight Face”

UFC 288 concluded with even more glory for the famed UFC welterweight, Belal Muhammad. At the end of a full 5-round tussle against his noted divisional rival, Gilbert Burns, the judges decided to award the bout in favor of ‘Remember The Name’ via a unanimous decision. With the win, Belal also extended his superb current win streak to a remarkable 9 wins. Further, the post-fight interview of Belal formed another enthralling moment for the UFC audiences.

Muhammad beamed with confidence post his win over ‘Durinho’. The Illinois native also mentioned ‘the GOAT’ for many fans and the current UFC heavyweight champ, Jon Jones, in his post-fight interview. Muhammad’s words about Jones garnered massive attention from the fans, some of whom also posted their opinions as comments.

Most fans didn’t agree with the allegedly overconfident words from Belal Muhammad

It was understandable that the ninth consecutive win had the ’34-year-old’ on cloud nine. But most fans rather chose to differ from Muhammad’s iteration about the UFC heavyweight kingpin, Jon Jones.

While being interviewed by the famous, Joe Rogan, post his fight, Muhammad stated, “For me, I said man. You give me eight weeks, I’m gonna beat Jon Jones. You give me three weeks, I can beat any Welterweight in a row”.

However, numerous fans took Muhammad’s words as him getting overconfident due to his superb current run. The co-main event winner’s confidence was understandable after his exceptional winning streak. But most fans just couldn’t accept his words about ‘Bones’.

A few such reactions read:

• Man that is not confidence, that’s a day dream.
• You give me burns with one hand I can be Jon Jones.
• In your dreams!!!
• lol. u will beat jon jones? Really?
• Credit to Joe for keeping a straight face

The thoughts of most fans were quite apparent from the comments they made on the Facebook post of ‘ESPN MMA’ covering this incident. However, a section of the MMA community understood the intentions behind the welterweight star’s words.

A section of fans understood the reasoning behind Belal Muhammad’s words

A chunk of fans also realized that Belal Muhammad had said all of this on purpose. The New Jersey crowd had expressed their dislike for the star during the fight. Hence, some fans realized that Belal only tried to prove his worth in the UFC with those words.

After a win, fighters are often given a free hand to talk or call out their next target. Although, ‘the 34-year-old’ didn’t make any callout. He attempted to showcase his greatness with those words and probably make sure that the UFC granted him a title shot after this win. A few such reactions which realized Muhammad’s reason behind this read:

• For the crowd that harassed him, a polite gesture was enough to silence them
• Belal vs Leon in Dubai makes more sense than Leon vs Colby in Dubai…let’s see… belal might be hated by fans but he is far far better competitor than Colby,stays active and fight contender like Vincent luque, Thompson,burns,Sean…more deserving than Colby
• Dude has the personality of a potato but he can fight really patient and smart. Also NJ does blow so he’s not entirely out of pocket

Well, it will be interesting to watch whether Belal Muhammad gets his long-awaited demand of a welterweight title shot title post this win and iconic interview. What did you make of Belal’s words after his victory at UFC 288? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.