December 9, 2024 3:30 pm ET
Daniel Cormier wasn’t a fan of the in-cage faceoff between Belal Muhammad and Shavkat Rakhmonov at UFC 310.
Rakhmonov (16-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) faced off with welterweight champion Muhammad (24-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) after he defeated Ian Machado Garry in Saturday’s UFC 310 co-main event at T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas.
Safety initially wouldn’t let Muhammad into the cage, and Joe Rogan didn’t assist issues when he joked on the microphone that safety didn’t know he’s the champion. Cormier doesn’t assume the faceoff helped promote the combat any extra and noticed the language barrier between Rakhmonov and Muhammad as a problem.
“I’ve obtained to be sincere. It was bizarre,” Cormier stated on his YouTube channel. “I don’t love faceoffs when you may have a translator, particularly when Belal, as a lot as individuals wish to hate him, he’s not a disrespectful man. So it doesn’t make that second that you simply’re on the lookout for whenever you carry a champion into the ring. When Volk got here in after Topuria beat Max, they shook palms they usually left. It was very respectful.
“However you understood what they have been saying. When (Sean) O’Malley was in there, and he was about to combat Aljo (Sterling) for the belt, Merab (Dvalishvili) takes the jacket, that makes a reminiscence. This tonight, I don’t assume it served the aim that you really want, as a promotion, with reference to what you’re going to do to attempt to construct that combat.” Muhammad was initially scheduled to defend his title in opposition to Rakhmonov in Saturday’s primary occasion, however a bone an infection in his toe compelled him to withdraw. He was cleared to return to coaching final week.
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