{"id":804405,"date":"2026-07-16T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/804405\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:41:10","slug":"kamaru-usman-fans-in-a-state-of-panic-after-ufc-oklahoma-staredown-size-difference-is-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/804405\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamaru Usman fans in a state of panic after UFC Oklahoma staredown \u2014 \u2018Size difference is ridiculous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Fans on social media were aghast by the \u201cridiculous\u201d size difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s a bad thing to always feel underappreciated but I think it\u2019s just a little extra chip on your shoulder that you need to go out there to perform,\u201d Usman told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/ufc\/news\/kamaru-usman-ufc-fight-night-oklahoma-city-dricus-du-plessis-two-division-champ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Sports<\/a>. \u201cSo, yes, I would say that I still have that chip on my shoulder. It has been a running joke about knees. I have had even worse injuries than that. It is what it is. Let them keep joking. I just have to go in there and prove them wrong every time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For the rest of the UFC Oklahoma fight card and <a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/c\/482924\/175360\/3065?subId1=SBNation&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paramountplus.com%2Frecommended%2Fnews%2F1010954%2Fufc-paramount-plus-streaming-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a> lineup click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/452694\/latest-ufc-oklahoma-city-fight-card-paramount-start-time-date-location-du-plessis-vs-usman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans on social media were aghast by the \u201cridiculous\u201d size difference. \u201cI don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,46234,1647],"class_list":["post-804405","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-ufc-videos","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804405","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=804405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}