Welterweight champ Muhammad discussed the possibility of moving up to 185 pounds, dubbing champ Du Plessis and former champ Sean Strickland easy matchups. Du Plessis notched his second title defense when he defeated Strickland in their rematch at UFC 312 earlier this month.

Muhammad wasn’t impressed by Strickland’s performance as he blasted the UFC middleweight division in a recent podcast appearance with Barstool Sports. Muhammad claimed du Plessis and the rest of the middleweights make it the ‘easiest weight class’ in the UFC and claimed the middleweight titleholder ‘sucks’.

UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad and middleweight champ Dricus du Plessis have very different impressions about how a fight between them plays out. There is a growing appetite to see UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev challenge for the welterweight crown,