Welterviktaren Kamaru Usman har med 12 segrar en av de längsta pågående vinstsviterna inom UFC där 8 kommit efter hans debut inom organisationen. Han är tilltänkt att stå redo att fightas vid UFC 228 ifall Darren Till och Tyron Woodley inte skulle kunna genomföra den planerade titelmatchen.
I en nylig medverkan i The MMA Hour berättade Usman att han inte kommer bli förvånad om han kommer behöva rycka in. Även om han inte tror att Woodley kommer att få problem inför galan så tvivlar han att Darren Till kommer klara vikten, vilket han inte är ensam om.
Han hade följande att säga rapporterar BJ Penn:
For Woodley, it’s not about making the weight, that’s not the issue. He was a wrestler; it’s not about making the weight. If Woodley doesn’t fight it’s about something else. That’s the only reason Woodley is out.
With Darren Till, he’s shown that it’s a weight issue. He’s a big guy. It’s not his fault, he’s growing, he’s a human being — he’s a big guy. With Till, it could be a weight issue and it could be something else.
That’s how I think of those guys. With Woodley, weight’s not going to be an issue, it’ll be something else. With Till it could be a number of things. I’m ready for either one of them. And I’m ready if nothing happens and I make weight. I did it in college every weekend for free.
With that Stephen Thompson fight, [Till] was given ample amount of time. He knew about that awhile. He was training and training and they were basically just trying to get ‘Wonderboy’ to take the fight and fly where they were fighting. You had ample amount of time, you didn’t have to travel, you were in your hometown, you slept in you bed and things still got in the way of you making that weight. Now when you don’t have ample amount of time, you have 48 days to train and get down to weight…I saw him in Vegas he’s a big guy, a really big guy.
Now it’s 48 days to make weight and you have to travel to America. It makes it a lot more difficult.
For [Till] it’s especially tough. What it reminds me of is Anthony Johnson continuously trying to make 170 back in the day. This was the same struggle and I bet it’s the same for him.
