The future is NOW.
Belal Muhammad was one of several fighters to get booked this week, and also one of several fighters to get snubbed for the UFC White House event. It seems no amount of begging or pleading could get the promotion’s top stars to leapfrog household names like Kyle Daukaus and Steve Garcia.
Muhammad echoed these sentiments about the invite-only event.
“People are going to hate, people are going to argue, but the fight at the White House, it’s not open to the public, to the real fans,”
Muhammed said on YouTube. “When I picture the people that are watching, I picture ‘The Hunger Games.’ The first [movie] when Katniss was at a tryout, the rich, snobby people were at the top, not paying attention to her.”
“People were talking and she had to shoot the arrow through the pig, that’s what I feel it’s going to be,” Muhammad continued. “Not really paying attention to the cage, they see a bit of blood, they don’t see knockouts, but they are not real fans. So who cares, they get what they get.”
They certainly won’t get “the baddest card of all time.”
Muhammad, 37, will look to snap the first two-fight losing streak of his career when he tangles with fast-rising welterweight prospect Gabriel Bonfim atop the UFC Vegas 118 fight card on June 6 in Las Vegas, roughly one week before the promotion heads to Washington, D.C. for “Freedom 250.”
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