MMA analyst Chael Sonnen believes the UFC will put Kamaru Usman ‘on ice’ while Leon Edwards defends his welterweight title against Khamzat Chimaev.
Sonnen’s comments come after Khamzat’s historic UFC 279 weight miss that saw the ‘Borz’ hit the scales seven and a half pounds over the non-title fight welterweight limit.
Still, Sonnen believes Chimaev’s next fight will be at 170 and that the UFC will book him against Edwards while Usman, who ‘Rocky’ knocked out last month, waits to fight the winner for the championship.
“I don’t believe that Kamaru Usman is going to be fighting Leon next,” former UFC middleweight and light heavyweight title challenger Sonnen told MiddleEasy in a recent interview (h/t Sportskeeda).