DALLAS – While the UFC 228 media day was taking place this afternoon with all the major players involved on the card, Kamaru Usman sat upstairs at the UFC host hotel biding his time. Like a lone wolf slunk in under cover of night, Usman has arrived in Texas as an insurance policy for the welterweight title fight between Darren Till and Tyron Woodley. He’s not part of the hoopla. But he is ready to go should anybody show up overweight, hurt, sick or otherwise unable to go.
“It’s definitely a weird position, especially at this stage of my career,” Usman told MMA Fighting.