Belal Muhammad out of UFC 310 - what's next?
"The Boys In The Back" crew reacts to the news that the UFC welterweight champion will not face Shavkat Rakhmonov due to a bone infection in his foot.
Video Transcript
Let us start with the 170 pound division Bilal.
Mohammed is officially out of UFC 310.
It was scheduled for December 7th in Las Vegas T Mobile Arena going up against Shavkat Rakhmanov.
Uh The tow looks pretty gnarly if you're eating dinner or lunch or breakfast right now, wherever you may be in the world, you may want to look away.
I do believe we have photos of said toe and uh any suggestion that this man is just looking for a reason to withdraw because you, you, you see this, you hear this very early on.
Uh I don't know when this photo was specifically taken, but uh that is not a good looking toe right in the middle.
I'm not sure what the actual name of the middle toe is, but whatever the case is, that's not good looking.
He was in the hospital.
He posted a video.
I mean that's after the fact it looks like they just like popped it.
Um Not sure what's going on with the toenails there on the big one and the other one.
Why, why they are that color?
But that's neither here nor there.
It's not for me to uh discuss all of that.
Yeah, there he is in the uh in the hospital and uh we do wish him a speedy recovery.
And so as a result of that, the fight is off uh reached to Rachman ov's team.
And uh they are saying that as of right now, they found out about this early this week, Monday, Tuesday, this week.
So it's been a couple of days.
I do want to give a shout out to the young man on Twitter.
I believe, you know who he is.
Rick, who reported this first?
Can you give me his name?
Uh The man, I believe.
No, it was the Italian Aino.
Yeah, that's the young man.
Yes.
Bellissimo.
Well done to you.
Hat tip.
Um And so he is out and right now there is no plan in place as far as the uh main event for 310 is concerned, Shaka's involvement.
You see, uh Ian Gary posting the clip of him saying he wants to fight Shavkat back in the day a few months ago.
He said he wants to be the one to take the L away.
He's uh trained with him in the past.
I mean, if I'm sha cut, why would I take that fight?
It doesn't really make a lot of sense.
I can un understand Ian shooting his shot and I would love to see that fight.
And I think we all said when Ian said that, that we would love to see that fight, but I could certainly understand Shaka being like, unless you're going to make this for an interim title, I'm going to wait.
He tweets wishing Bilal a quick recovery we'll meet when you're back at 100% for now.
I'm ready to take on any contender for the interim title at 310.
And so do they make Ian Gary versus Sha Cut?
They haven't talked about that.
They haven't put that in place just yet.
The other thing that has been thrown out, of course, Alex Pereira, the MVP in many people's eyes will find out in our collective eye as well in January of the uh the UFC and male fighter of the year, potentially.
Uh Will he get his number called once again to save the day short notice for potentially the fourth time in 2024.
I reached out to his team as well and they said, uh as of right now, no one has reached out to them.
No calls have been made.
And uh he does have a couple of uh big trips planned Korea Mexico and he would like to fulfill those trips.
I would be very, very surprised.
Um Never count him out.
I'm not saying it's not happening, but uh there's no need for it to happen.
What a little over a month away from now.
So as of right now, 310 fluid developing situation
