Kamaru Usman is not happy with the narrative that he shied away from facing Shavkat Rakhmonov . When Rakhmonov (15-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) lost out on his title fight against welterweight champion Belal Muhammad in Saturday’s main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, “Nomad” called for Usman as a replacement . Usman (20-4 MMA, 15-3 UFC) said he was potentially going to slide into the fight, but it was Ian Machado Garry (18-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) that ended up stepping in to face Rakhmonov in a five-round co-main event (pay-per-view, ESPN2, ESPN+). “I’m seeing online people go, ‘Oh, you scared
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