Episode 644: Somehow Belal Muhammad is still fighting for respect

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The CME’s 13th birthday is coming up, and you know what that means: It’s pledge month! Now through June 1, GET 50% OFF A NEW MONTHLY OR ANNUAL PATREON SUBSCRIPTION when you use the code CME13 at checkout! Get on it! Join the team! Support the community! Stick it to the man! Belal Muhammad said he doesn’t care what you think anymore. He knows he’s good, even if you don’t. Well, I mean, yeah, he is the UFC welterweight champion, so there is some evidence to suggest he’s pretty good. Somehow, though, it still feels like there are constantly a lot of doubts. You doubt he’ll win his next fight. You doubt it’ll be exciting, if he does. You doubt he’ll sell many PPVs, you doubt he’ll get in the UFC’s good graces, you doubt he’ll hang onto that belt for long … and on and on and on … So far, for the most part, he’s proved you wrong. Still, that makes this weekend’s title defense at UFC 315 against Jack Della Maddalena all the more important. It’s the first time in a long while that Belal isn’t the underdog. So … gotta win this one, right? Plus, what now for Bo Nickal? That’s up to him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.8	You're listening to the co-main event podcast.
0:40.9	And now your host, Ben Fulks and Chad Dundas.
0:48.2	That's right.
0:49.5	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast. I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben
0:57.2	folks. We're both longtime MMA journalists and for nearly the last 13 years. We've been meeting
1:03.9	here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts.
1:13.3	Ben, we got UFC 315 this weekend from the Bell Center up there in Montreal,
1:21.7	coming to us right on the heels of our trip out to Des Moines, where Corey Sandhagen defeated Davidson Figurado in the main event
1:30.9	due to a second round knee injury. And the fight that is perhaps engendering more public
1:39.6	interest, Rainier de Ritter's victory over Bo Nickel in the middleweight co-main event,
1:46.3	a second round TKO there, as maybe is to be expected. Most of the listener mail that we got this
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