Belal Muhammad previously wrote off the chances of him fighting someone that he’d trained with in the past.
Muhammad will be facing Ian Machado Garry at the UFC Qatar co-main event as he looks for a win.
The former UFC welterweight champion is motivated to prove that he’s still in the title picture after losing his belt earlier this year.
Islam Makhachev beat Jack Della Maddalena, who he was closely associated with previously, to become the new champion at 170-pounds.
Now that the roles are reversed, ‘Remember the Name’ is seemingly open to the idea of putting a previous relationship aside to make it to the top.
Dricus du Plesis says Jack Della Maddalena made a mistake in his loss to Islam Makhachev
UFC Qatar fight card
Arman Tsarukyan vs Dan Hooker
Belal Muhammad vs Ian Garry
Volkan Oezdemir vs Alonzo Menifield
Jack Hermansson vs Myktybek Orolbai
Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs Shamil Gaziev
Alex Perez vs Asu Alambayev
Luke Riley vs Bogdan Grad
Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev vs Rafael Cerqueira
Tagir Ulanbekov vs Kyoji Horiguchi
Bekzat Almakhan vs Aleksandre Topuria
Ismail Naurdiev and Ryan Loder
Nurullo Aliev vs Shem Rock
Nicolas Dalby vs Saygid zagakhmaev
Marek Bujlo vs Denzel Freeman
Belal Muhammad appears willing to take on Islam Makhachev in order to be the best
Islam Makhachev was clearly moving up to the next division after Jack Della Maddalena defeated Belal Muhammad for the welterweight championship in May.
The Russian, who has previously trained with the champion in lightweight, would have decided to keep his belt and not give it up if he had retained the belt.
Muhammad claimed that earlier this season he would not fight Makhachev, due to their close relationship. Instead, he would vacate his championship and move to middleweight.
However, with a win on November 22 potentially seeing him emerge as one of the new welterweight champion’s potential challengers, it appears that some things have changed.
This co-main…
2025-11-22 13:00:00
