Best ever? Beating Leon Edwards puts Belal Muhammad above Kamaru Usman, ‘right underneath’ Georges St-Pierre

UFC fighters have no problem declaring themselves the greatest of all time.

That includes No. 2-ranked welterweight contender Belal Muhammad, who’s convinced he’ll retire as the best 170-pound fighter to ever compete inside the Octagon. That’s a pretty lofty goal when you consider he’s up against the likes of former champions Kamaru Usman and Georges St-Pierre.

Stopping Leon Edwards at UFC 304 on July 27 in Manchester would certainly be a good start.

MMA Fighting. “My goal is to be the best welterweight to ever do it, so for me to go out there and beat Leon, who beat [Kamaru] Usman twice, who everybody thought was the best welterweight to do it, then I’m ahead of him and I’m right underneath [Georges St-Pierre]. You give me Shavkat [Rakhmonov], you give me [Jack Della Maddalena], you give me Ian Garry, and then I walk through all of them, there’s nothing else. I’m just going to be cemented as the best to ever do it.”

Muhammad (23-3, 1 NC) has already defeated three former title challengers in his rise to the top of the division. That includes his UFC 288 victory over the one-armed Gilbert Burns in Newark. In addition, “Remember the Name” plans to restore the glitz and glamor to the welterweight class after a boring and uninspired run from Edwards.

One that included a “No Contest” against Muhammad in early 2021.

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