{"id":10701,"date":"2025-11-22T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=10701"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:07:41","slug":"belal-muhammad-aiming-to-make-a-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=10701","title":{"rendered":"Belal Muhammad Aiming to Make a Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI hate losing, and when I look at it and people are like, \u2018How do you feel about it?\u2019 it\u2019s like for me, I\u2019m chasing excellence \u2014to be the best fighter, the most complete MMA fighter in the world, so losing that fight tells me we\u2019ve got more work to do,\u201d explained Muhammad, who put together an 11-fight unbeaten and claimed the welterweight title in between his last two losses. \u201cI\u2019ve got to out-work that last person. I\u2019ve got to be a better version than that last person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Following that loss) it was just about bettering myself mentally, not giving excuses, this or that; it was just, \u2018Alright, we gotta get better, we gotta do better,\u2019 and now on Saturday night, I get to show better. I get to go out there, smash this guy \u2014 especially somebody with a big mouth like that \u2014and then people are gonna be talking about me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/video\/152681\"><strong>Islam Makhachev Names His Next Target At Welterweight<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery week there is a new fight,\u201d he continued. \u201cThere were three welterweight (fights) on that last card, and they\u2019re not gonna be talking about them next week: they\u2019re gonna be talking about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dispatching Machado Garry would certainly go a long way in helping Muhammad\u2019s chances of getting right back into the title mix, as the skilled contender who just celebrated his 28th birthday earlier this week has only lost once and successfully navigated a main event pairing with Prates in the spring, as Muhammad had mentioned.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(function(d, s, id) {<br \/>\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];<br \/>\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}<br \/>\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;<br \/>\n  js.src = &#8220;\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1&#8221;;<br \/>\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);<br \/>\n}(document, &#8220;script&#8221;, &#8220;facebook-jssdk&#8221;));<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/news\/belal-muhammad-aiming-to-make-a-statement-ufc-qatar\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI hate losing, and when I look at it and people are like, \u2018How do you feel about it?\u2019 it\u2019s like for me, I\u2019m chasing excellence \u2014to be the best fighter, the most complete MMA fighter in the world, so losing that fight tells me we\u2019ve got more work to do,\u201d explained Muhammad, who put &#8230; <a title=\"Belal Muhammad Aiming to Make a Statement\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=10701\" aria-label=\"Read more about Belal Muhammad Aiming to Make a Statement\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Belal-Muhammad-Aiming-to-Make-a-Statement.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10703,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701\/revisions\/10703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}