Belal Muhammad seriously doubts Conor McGregor will ever fight again.
McGregor broke his leg during a trilogy bout with Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021 and has been sidelined ever since.
A comeback bout with Michael Chandler was penciled in for 18 months before ‘Iron Mike’ decided to stop waiting for McGregor and agreed to fight Charles Oliveira at UFC 309 on November 16 instead.
Now that the former dual-weight UFC is without an opponent, he’s set his sights on welterweight king Muhammad and lightweight contender Dan Hooker, who he claimed to be fighting in February during a recent interview with BloodyElbow.com.
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Belal Muhammad shuts down Conor McGregor comeback talk
Earlier this month, McGregor aimed an angry rant at Muhammad as he reflected on his failed fight with Chandler, which was supposed to take place at UFC 303 in June before the Irishman suffered an injury and withdrew from the card.
McGregor wrote in a since-deleted tweet: “I’d love to crush my left hook into Belal’s temple and take down the triple crown. I’d do it easily. And fast!”
“The hurdles I face getting back in the Octagon are just harrowing.
“I am so sad over my June 29th fight cancellation. To think this bum is now a UFC champion with zero knockdowns on his resume whatsoever is so bad.
“The UFC’s most abysmal zero revenue generating fighter in modern history.”
The 170lb champion has issued a blunt response to McGregor’s social media post.
‘Remember the Name’ started his rebuttal by suggesting McGregor was intoxicated whilst making the bold statements about him, and then he made a grim prediction about the UFC legend’s fighting future.
“This guy is always high or drunk,” Muhammad claimed during an interview with Submission Radio.
“And the only way that he’s going to imagine that beating me is if he’s high or drunk. There’s nothing that’ll ever happen. He won’t be coming back to 170. He won’t be coming back to fighting.
“You know, he needs to go back to rehab. And like I said, if he needs a ride there, I’ll help him out. I’ll get him an Uber there. But, yeah, somebody needs to help this guy. He’s not. He’s not going to be fighting anytime soon.”
Belal Muhammad previews his first welterweight title defense
Muhammad became the UFC welterweight champion by traveling to Leon Edwards’ home country and outpointing him over five rounds at UFC 304 in July.
The 36-year-old will make the first defense of his new belt against undefeated 18-0 contender Shavkat Rakhmonov in the main event of UFC 310 on December 7.
Muhammad is considered the underdog in the fight, but he’s feeling extremely confident that he’ll become the first man to beat Rakhmonov during the UFC’s final pay-per-view event of the year
He added: “I see myself going in there and getting the finish.”
“He doesn’t have break in him. He’s tough. He’s tough. So I’m looking at myself and I’m knowing that I have to go to another gear.
“I have to go to another level and I think I’m going to reach that level. Because even with myself in that last fight, I wasn’t even the best version of myself.
“I went in there, it was 5am weird time zone change across the world. And I still looked great, right? But that was still not who I am. I’m still better than that.
“So, this next fight, you’re going to see a version of myself that’ll kill the last version of myself. And it’s just going to be the best version in the welterweight history”