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Fighters At A Glance: Kamaru Usman

In today’s article of Fighters At A Glance we are looking at the current UFC Welterweight Champion ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’ Kamaru Usman. We are going to do a background and look at Usman’s past fights and go through them.

Kamaru Usman’s UFC started before he was a member of the main roster as he was the winner of The Ultimate Fighter Series 21. Usman’s UFC debut came in The Ultimate Fighter series 21 Finale where he won the show defeating Hayder Hassan via submission with an arm triangle in the second round. In December 2015 Usman took on Leon ‘Rocky’ Edwards and won in a unanimous decision victory.

Kamaru fought twice in 2016. His first fight came in July where he defeated Alexander Yakovlev where he earned another unanimous decision victory. Then his second fight of the year was when he came up against Warlley Alves and again earned another unanimous decision win. In April 2017 Usman fought and defeated via unanimous decision Sean Strickland at UFC 210. Then in the first round of his fight with Sergio Moraes, he knocked him out.

At UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs Choi in January 2018 Usman earned a unanimous victory in a three-round fight with Emil Meek. Then in his first headling event, he fought Demien Maia. This was Usman’s most impressive fight up to that point. This fight was another unanimous decision victory in Kamaru’s favour.

Then came the fight that earned him the title shot where he fought Rafael Dos Anjos. This fight was a unanimous decision victory where every judge handed the fight to Kamaru. Then came Kamaru’s biggest fight of his whole career was his UFC Welterweight title shot against Tyron Woodley. This fight was a very dominated fight in Usman’s favour because Woodley was not able to do anything in the fight. Then came the best fight in 2019 in my opinion vs Colby Covington where this was almost a 5 round war. Usman KO’d Covington late in the fifth and final round.

Who will we see Usman fight next many think Jorge Masvidal is the fight to make. Will we see Usman fight Masvidal next? Or will the UFC think another fighter is title worthy.

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