There’s a very particular reason why welterweight champion Kamaru Usman is willing to “risk it all” and fight Jorge Masvidal in a short-notice replacement main event at UFC 249. With news of Khabib Nurmagomedov likely being out of the UFC 249 headliner with Tony Ferguson due to travel restrictions in Russia, many fighters jumped on social media to throw their names in the hat to possibly headline the card. Two of those people were Usman (16-1 MMA, 11-0 UFC) and and top contender Masvidal. Both men claimed to have accepted the fight and that it was turned down on the other end
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