UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad says he’s following Khabib Nurmagomedov’s lead by avoiding trash-talking.
Khabib Nurmagomedov
Muhammad has been a supporter of Nurmagomedov and trained with his team ahead of his UFC 304 title fight against Leon Edwards. After Muhammad pulled off the upset to become the welterweight champion, he said he has no plans to trash-talk as that isn’t him and he just wants to be himself, like Khabib Nurmagomedov.
“No, because I never wanted to fake it, never wanted to be out of my character…I always looked up to Khabib Nurmagomedov, I always looked up to like guy like him who he brought the religion Islam into the sport and the world started learning it from his actions so like I wanted to follow in his footsteps and being that guy,” Muhammad said to Grind City (via SportsRush).