Belal Muhammad ’s goal is to capture UFC welterweight gold, but he doesn’t see the champion as his biggest fight. Muhammad (22-3 MMA, 13-3 UFC) continuously has called out undefeated star Khamzat Chimaev (12-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) but to no avail. “Remember the Name” is unbeaten in his past nine fights, with the lone asterisk coming in a no contest against current 170-pound champion Leon Edwards after an inadvertent eye poke rendered Muhammad unable to continue . Muhammad, who’s coming off a TKO of Sean Brady at UFC 280, is currently training and staying ready in case Kamaru Usman can’t make it to his projected trilogy bout with Edwards in March. But the fighter Muhammad really wants to test himself against is the division’s boogeyman, Chimaev, who claims that no one wants to fight him .
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