For a while now, Belal Muhammad has been stuck at the level in his division that can be hardest to escape: Muhammad (18-3 MMA, 9-3 UFC) established himself as a dangerous opponent for anyone at welterweight, but he didn’t have the name value of the biggest stars. That made him the sort of fighter the biggest names wanted to avoid as a high-risk, low-reward foe, which made for lots of fruitless callouts in recent years. “It was one of those things where I was calling and begging for these ranked guys for the last 2-3 years, where I’m calling these guys out and they never give it to me,” Muhammad recently told MMA Junkie. “And one day I’m like, ‘Dude, they’re not taking it.’ They’ve always got an excuse like, ‘I don’t want to fight below me
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Belal Muhammad explains why he called out Li Jingliang at UFC 258 – MMA Junkie