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“Usman and Covington deserve to be Rakhmonov’s rivals” – Bikrev
Shavkat Rakhmonov / Photo: © Sean M. Haffey / Staff / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru
AMC Fight Nights welterweight champion Dmitry Bikrev believes that Americans Kamaru Usman and Kolban Covington deserve to be opponents of Kazakhstan’s Shavkat Rakhmonov.
At the end of October, UFC champion Belal Muhammad withdrew from his fight against Rakhmonov for medical reasons.
— Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington are good fighters and deserve to be Shavkat Rakhmonov’s opponents. They were both champions, but I personally would like to see Shavkat fight Kamaru Usman. He is still a top fighter, having lost only to Leon Edwards and Khamzat Chimaev in another weight category. All the same, these defeats did not greatly affect his rating, so why shouldn’t Rakhmonov fight him. It will be competitive,” Vprognoze.ru quotes Bikrev as saying.
Rakhmonov has won 18 out of 18 fights and has a winning streak of six fights in the UFC.
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Source: Sportbox
