The timing would possibly lastly be excellent for Sean Strickland vs. Belal Muhammad.
Strickland and Muhammad have been speaking trash for literal years now. How did the meat begin? Again in 2021, Strickland wanted an opponent when Luke Rockhold withdrew because of harm, and Muhammad supplied to step in as a result of he “hates that piece of trash.” Strickland by no means forgot, and the duo have traded barbs back-and-forth ever since.
Sadly, the match up has but to really materialize within the Octagon. Apart from being a weight class aside, each males have spent some sudden time as UFC champion. With each coming off pretty dominant title struggle losses and pushed out of their respective fast title footage, there’s fewer obligations stopping the grudge match from coming to fruition.
Strickland, who most not too long ago got here up quick reverse Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 312, thinks it’s time to finish the discuss and begin the scrap.
“Belal can be a enjoyable struggle. That may be a enjoyable one. Belal you must lastly sack up,” Strickland advised Helen Yee (through MMAWeekly). “That is it. You might lastly sack the f—ok up. All that s—t you talked, man. We will lastly make it occur. You misplaced your belt. You form of received f—ked up. I received f—ked up. We must always make that struggle occur Belal.
“All that s—t he talks on Instagram. He’s like, ‘I’m going to return struggle you. I’m going not come do that. I’m going to return to that.’ Now you possibly can you f—king p—sy. Do it for Palestine.”
There’s, nonetheless, one potential impediment. In the identical interview, Strickland stepped on a scale and practically broke the rattling factor! Until there’s some form of trickery at play, Strickland is at present 230 kilos, a whopping 45 kilos over the Middleweight restrict.
Protected to say, Strickland will want a full camp to make the Middleweight restrict … if not a number of additional weeks of weight-reduction plan. Thankfully, that ought to outing effectively, seeing as Muhammad simply received banged up badly in his title loss to Jack Della Maddalena. “The Bully” will want time to heal up earlier than leaping again into the fray, so perhaps the grudge match can lastly match everyone’s schedule?
Keep tuned.
