“Leon pulls out a week before the fight, I will come on as a substitute and finish Colby in the second round,” wrote Muhammad on the social network.
Earlier, UFC President Dana White announced that in the next fight Belal Muhammad would face the undefeated Shavkat Rakhmonov, however, the American fighter said that he was not going to fight the Kazakh fighter, making it clear that he expected to share the octagon with Kamaru Usman, or with Gilbert Burns, if he manages to defeat Jorge Masvidal.