UFC 228 har redan haft manbortfall (kvinnobortfall) då matchen mellan Nicco Montaño och Valentina Shevchenko blivit inställt på grund av att Montaño fått problem med njurarna under bantningen. Darren Till och Tyron Woodley har visserligen klarat vikten, men Kamaru Usman är ändå invägd och redo att hoppa in ifall något händer.
För närvarande befinner sig Usman på ett hotellrum Dallas och sa följande till MMA Fighting.
“It’s definitely a weird position, especially at this stage of my career,”
“But I attest my strength to deal with it with the training I’ve had, going through years and years of wrestling. Especially collegiately. You’re in a big tournament, you don’t know who you’ll get next.”
“It’s whoever gets through that guy that you get next. I like to think that I’ve had a lot of training for moments like this.”
“At the end of the day, I’m a professional. I’ve been doing this shit for a long, long time. I don’t take this for granted,”
“When I decided that I wanted to be a professional athlete…one thing about me is that my parents didn’t force me to be an athlete. My parents didn’t want me to do this. My dad, when I told him I wanted to wrestle, he told me no, if you’re going to play any sports play baseball.”
“You get paid a lot and there’s not that much contact. But for some reason I chose to do this. I chose to embark on this journey.”
Galan går inatt om några timmar så chansen att något mer händer nu är väldigt liten, men å andra sidan har vi sett konstigare saker hända runt UFC-galor.
