Shavkat
Rakhmonov has his doubts about the timing of Belal
Muhammad’s exit from UFC
310.

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Rakhmonov was scheduled to challenge Muhammad for the welterweight
title in the main event at UFC 310 on Dec. 7 at the T-Mobile Arena
in Las Vegas. However, Muhammad pulled out of the matchup, citing a
bone infection that led to severe swelling in his
foot.

Rakhmonov has now questioned the recency of Muhammad’s injury. The
undefeated Kazakh believes Muhammad’s injury is older than he
advertised, as he claims to have heard of the champ training
recently. According to “Nomad,” Muhammad could have fought at UFC
310 if he wanted to but chose to exercise more caution.

“From what I heard and what I know, he got injuries even earlier
before it went public,” Rakhmonov recently told Ariel Helwani. “Because I [heard about] him train recently. Maybe he just posted his picture recently, but
the problem occurred even earlier. So I think he [would be] able to
fight in December, but he wasn’t just sure and [was] just being
extra careful for that.”

Rakhmonov has now called for a short-notice interim title shot
against former champ Kamaru
Usman (20-4) to save the card.

“I believe there is worthy opponent available,” Rakhmanov said.
“I’m ready to save the card too if it’s for the interim belt. And I
believe Usman is a [worthy] opponent who’ll also probably want to
be ready to jump in to face me.”

Rakhmonov’s manager, Sayat Abdrakhmanov, also confirmed that the
UFC is definitely in negotiations with Usman for the fight as
well.

“Yeah, right now negotiations going on and obviously there’s
talking,” Abdrakhmanov said. “I don’t know if they are talking to
someone else but I’m sure they offered to Kamaru too.”

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