Kamaru Usman filed one of his most impressive victories to date with a thunderous KO of Jorge Masvidal in the main event of UFC 261. In doing so, ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’ continued to banish thoughts that he was a just a boring wrestler.
In defending his UFC welterweight title Usman scored his third stoppage from strikes in four outings. He TKO’d Gilbert Burns in February and TKO’d Colby Covington back in 2019. He now has 9 KO/TKO on his career.
Usman and his coaches of course deserve all the credit for his landmark victory last night. However, Conor McGregor would have you believe otherwise.
The man who is notorious for trying to steal other people’s thunder hopped onto Instagram last night with a claim that Usman somehow copied him. To back-up his claim McGregor included a video from his losing effort versus Dustin Poirier from UFC 257 (a fight he lost by TKO).
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In addition to claiming Usman was copying his shots, McGregor also made the bold claim that he would soon be the UFC’s welterweight champion. McGregor doubled down on those claims on twitter, saying he would spend the rest of 2021 at 155 lbs and then go up and challenge Usman at 170 lbs.