Kamaru Usman is still unfaltering in his belief he might’ve moved up 2 departments to light heavyweight when he was still welterweight champ and beat the champ at the time.
Usman (20-4 MMA, 15-3 UFC) was composed off as insane numerous years ago when he dealtwith off with then-light heavyweight titleholder Jan Blachowicz backstage at a UFC occasion and teased moving up 35 pounds in weight.
It neverever emerged, and both guys ultimately lost their champion belts. Usman most justrecently contended at middleweight for the veryfirst time with a narrow loss to Khamzat Chimaev in October, while Blachowicz (29-10-1 MMA, 12-7-1 UFC) is recuperating from several surgicaltreatments in hopes of returning to the octagon this year.
Although the ship has apparently cruised on the Usman vs. Blachowicz combining, possibly it’s not absolutely off the table. During a current episode of his “Pound 4 Pound” podcast with co-host Henry Cejudo, previous longtime UFC champ Usman discussed why he felt so positive in calling out Blachowicz (via X):
Kamaru Usman remembers his face off with Jan Blachowicz, and still thinks the match favoured him 👀
“You see my arms next to his?… Everybody was talking about ‘he’s a lightheavyweight’ however I was out there thick on him…
I’m informing you… I wouldn’t haveactually called for