Alex Volkanovski has fired back at Belal Muhammad for saying that he’d beat the ‘hell’ out of the former UFC featherweight champ.
Muhammad cemented his legacy by becoming the UFC welterweight champion with a unanimous decision victory over Leon Edwards at UFC 304. At 36, the Chicago native entered the fight as a +200 underdog in most books, despite an impressive 10-fight unbeaten streak.
However, ‘Remember The Name’ defied the odds, consistently pressuring and out-grappling ‘Rocky. Now, he’s basking in his victory, making sure to remind everyone who doubted him, including Volkanovski.
“Cry, right? You guys that were talking,” Muhammad said on the Anik & Florian Podcast. “You guys were hating. All these guys wanted to come out. [Alexander] Volkanovski, ‘Man, I think Belal’s a good matchup for me if I fight him.’ Shut up, bro. I’ll smack the hell out of you. All these guys, right?
“There’s nobody in the UFC that will beat me,” he continued. “There’s nobody in the UFC that I can’t look at and tell you my path to victory. I look at all these guys, all these opponents, keep putting me as the underdog, and I’m gonna keep going out there and dominating. This wasn’t a hard fight. This was an easy fight, and I said it was gonna be easy.”
Volkanovski fired back through X.
“Belal, you have every reason to hate on what I said about you being a good stylistic match up for me but I truly believe that, even after your last fight, you didn’t show me anything different. You still mad because I accidentally missed your call…pathetic! Say ‘shut up, I’ll smack the s*** out of you’ to my face and see what happens.”
What do you make of the beef between Belal Muhammad and Alex Volkanovski?
