{"id":713022,"date":"2026-06-03T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713022\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:27:08","slug":"ufc-vegas-118s-belal-muhammad-finally-done-chasing-kamaru-usman-fight-i-cant-think-about-him-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713022\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 118\u2019s Belal Muhammad (finally) done chasing Kamaru Usman fight \u2014 \u2018I can\u2019t think about him anymore\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFor me, it\u2019s like I\u2019m not even thinking about him anymore,\u201d Muhammad told MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cThe guy\u2019s been avoiding me forever. So I\u2019m not going to keep chasing somebody. So my mindset is Bonfim and then looking at the next guy. [Usman] got away. It\u2019s whatever. I can\u2019t think about him anymore. There\u2019s no need for it anymore, for myself. Then it looks like you\u2019re a bully, and I don\u2019t like picking on guys. Now it\u2019s Gabriel. Once they said [his name], I\u2019m like, all right, that\u2019s it. Now it\u2019s about getting my hand raised. Getting back in the win column and reminding people who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muhammad is looking to snap the first two-fight losing streak of his career.<\/p>\n

The means to that end is a victory over red-hot welterweight prospect Gabriel Bonfim. They\u2019ll hook \u2018em up in the UFC Vegas 118 main event<\/a> on Sat. (June 6, 2026) at the promotion\u2019s Meta Apex<\/a> facility in Las Vegas. A loss for Muhammad, who turns 38 in July, would undoubtedly end his quest to earn another 170-pound title shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFor me, it\u2019s like I\u2019m not even thinking about him anymore,\u201d Muhammad told MMA Fighting. \u201cThe guy\u2019s been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,1647],"class_list":["post-713022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}