Hot take: Merab is right about Umar

First things first, I don’t deny the fact that Umar is a strong contented, but two things can be true at the same time, these are:

  1. Umar beat Cory Sandhagen in a No. 1 Contender Fight

  2. Umar didn’t have any impressive wins apart from that, in contrast to Merab, who had to beat legends like Aldo and Cejudo, and also dominated over Yan, before he got his title fight.

So I kinda see where he’s coming from. He has the right to be mad about Umars comments on Merab „ducking“ him, where in reality for example Petr Yans latest run appears to be clearly more impressive. You could argue that Umar „cut the line“ because he is A. has Nurmagomedov in his name and B. has a 0 in his record.

First things first, I don’t deny the fact that Umar is a strong contented, but two things can be true at the same time, these are:

  1. Umar beat Cory Sandhagen in a No. 1 Contender Fight

  2. Umar didn’t have any impressive wins apart from that, in contrast to Merab, who had to beat legends like Aldo and Cejudo, and also dominated over Yan, before he got his title fight.

So I kinda see where he’s coming from. He has the right to be mad about Umars comments on Merab „ducking“ him, where in reality for example Petr Yans latest run appears to be clearly more impressive. You could argue that Umar „cut the line“ because he is A. has Nurmagomedov in his name and B. has a 0 in his record.