Belal Muhammad 24 wins 18 by unanimous decision

[TomTomNT]

WW division is about to be held hostage for a little while. Yes hes very good, dont get me wrong, i was not a fan of either guy so i could not care who won last night, but god damn this is pure point fighting style, very little to virtually 0 ground and pound, virtually no attempts at submissions, just pure "get a position and hold on for dear life for the rest of the round". We have seen this blue print from guys before who are heavy grapplers, but never at a record of 18 decision out of 24 wins...thats just an absurd stat to hear. We have had our heavy grapplers like Khabibs, or Usmans, hell even at the lighter weight classes like Aljamain, but Belal looks like hes not even interested in trying to finish some of these fights.

Im afraid the WW division might be stuck for a year or 2, the guy is 36 and with his fighting style it will make very very difficult to make for exciting fights, especially if one fighter is perfectly happy to stall out decisions

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[HHJ]

I just see 24 wins, thats all that matters.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Sounds like he'll fit in just fine at wrestleweight

 

[SaltedVinegarfootstomps]

It's actually the reverse; Belal is trying to finish all the time, he just can't get there. That's part of his warped little Cinderella story. I find it hilarious.

 

[flektarn]

It was a lose lose either way. Leon and Belal are both decision machines. At least Belal's next fight has to be decent tho right, he's beaten a lot of the guys already. JDM, Shavkat are the only options that make sense. If it's JDM...I think belal easily takes it. Shavkat I'm not as convinced.
Or maybe Belal will angle for a Colby fight somehow to try and keep his belt longer

 

[kingmob6]

Leon has 19 UFC fights.
11 Decisions
3 Losses
1 NC
1 Sub Win
3 KOS

LOL

 

[HHJ]

It was a lose lose either way. Leon and Belal are both decision machines. At least Belal's next fight has to be decent tho right, he's beaten a lot of the guys already. JDM, Shavkat are the only options that make sense. If it's JDM...I think belal easily takes it. Shavkat I'm not as convinced.
Or maybe Belal will angle for a Colby fight somehow to try and keep his belt longer

No way in hell colby gets a 4th title shot. he would have to beat 10 contenders to even be considered.

 

[kingmob6]

No way in hell colby gets a 4th title shot. he would have to beat 10 contenders to even be considered.

love the avatar bro

 

[TomTomNT]

It was a lose lose either way. Leon and Belal are both decision machines. At least Belal's next fight has to be decent tho right, he's beaten a lot of the guys already. JDM, Shavkat are the only options that make sense. If it's JDM...I think belal easily takes it. Shavkat I'm not as convinced.
Or maybe Belal will angle for a Colby fight somehow to try and keep his belt longer

the problem with any of the fights you mentioned, which one of them would go any different than the one we saw last night? Belal will basically do his best to turn every fight into counting points till the last bell rings and as we have seen time and time again, we dont have to worry about submissions or KOs, just gotta hope that judgers dont mess up the scorecards

 

[BjPenn2017]

WW division been held hostage and boring as fuck since GSP reigned outside of Lawlers short reign, always been a wrestler heavy and fairly boring division at the top.

Have a feeling Belal vs Shavkat might end up being like Stipe vs Ngannou 1 from the lead up all the way to Belal winning and pissing Dana off

 

[kiley_sean]

Muslim version of Jon Fitch is not an easy product to sell. No wonder Dana is salty.

 

[McGeezle]

No way in hell colby gets a 4th title shot. he would have to beat 10 contenders to even be considered.

Considering he didn't even have to beat 1 contender for his 3rd title shot, you never know

 

[HHJ]

Considering he didn't even have to beat 1 contender for his 3rd title shot, you never know

NAH enough is enough.

He fought so bad in that last one UFC dont need to bother with helping him. He only got that last one for droppin the charges against Masvidal

 

[MRT]

Belal's path to acceptance as champ is to fight often, fight anyone, and continue to play the heel.

By 'acceptance', I mean two things: for fans, to make them care more intensely about him one way or the other...and for the UFC, to be very easy to work with.

In his shoes, I would go all-in on the 'champ the UFC doesn't want' angle. It seems Shavkat is next and I would publicly welcome it...and if he wins that fight, *really* amp up the 'ok, UFC...who's next? You guys don't want me to be champ, then find someone who can beat me...I'll take out all your little favourites with their gifted paths and Dana White privilege...line them up!'

 

[kingghidrah]

You guys!!! Stop fighter-bashing Belal !!!

"Decision" is a trigger word for us Belal fans!!!!

 

[Colemanstove]

No one is making this division boring over the next two years
Too many interesting fighters close to a title shot.

 

[beater81]

Belal is a Tyron Woodley 2.0. IMO with him at the helm the WW just got a lot less interesting.

 

[Oenomaus]

I think Shavkat wins a 5 round fight with Belal so I wouldn’t worry too much, as long as Belal doesn’t sit out a year or lobby for a fight with Colby or some shit the WW will be moving along nicely

 

[RockyLockridge]

god stop acting like WW hasn't sucked since woodley beat lawler.

 

[RockyLockridge]

Belal is a Tyron Woodley 2.0. IMO with him at the helm the WW just got a lot less interesting.

lmfao no he is not tyron woodley 2.0. he's more likea colby covington 2.0. Woodley just backs up towards the cage and feints for 5 rounds belal drowns you with a whirlwind of strikes and takedowns.