Kamaru Usman finds the UFC potentially putting on numerous title fights at the White House event ridiculous.
U.S. President Donald Trump teased that the UFC’s planned event on the South Lawn on June 14 will have eight or nine championship fights. UFC play-by-play commentator Jon Anik thinks we might see six or seven, but Usman says that is way too many fights for the viewers to consume.
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He was rather critical of the idea.
“They’re talking this six or seven title fights, first and foremost, Henry, pardon my French, but who the f*ck wants to watch seven title fights back-to-back, five round title fights back-to-back-to-back,” Usman said on his “Pound 4 Pound” podcast with Henry Cejudo. “What if the four or the five or the six in a row are boring? I think it’s a bad idea, bad idea because first of all, we want to see contender fights. We want to see guys who are willing to go risk their lives out there.
“When you’re the champion, your whole goal is to keep that, you want to be smart, you want to be tactical, you want to strategically retain your title. Champions aren’t going out there like, ‘Yeah, we’re going to throw caution to the wind and just swing for the fences like we’re in a bar fight,’ that’s not what champions do because that’s not what gets you to be a champion. You got to be smarter than everybody else. This whole notion of, ‘Let’s put six title fights on there,’ I think that’s a bad idea, and honestly, I might be asleep by title fight three, I might be asleep.”
Various fighters have thrown their names in the hat to compete at the White House, most notably former two-division champions Conor McGregor and Jon Jones. No fights have been scheduled for the event yet.
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