Belal Muhammad couldn’t help but laugh at Kamaru Usman’s hypocrisy after he called for Islam Makhachev to go after the UFC welterweight title for his next fight. It’s been well-documented that Muhammad spent a lot of time in recent years training alongside Makhachev and UFC Hall of Famer Khabib Nurmagomedov, who serves as his head coach, with everybody involved saying there was no interest in eventually fighting each other. While Makhachev had previously expressed interest in pursuing a second UFC championship, he’s since admitted that he wouldn’t want to move to welterweight so long as Muhammad is holding the title. Still, Usman insisted that Makhachev should set friendships aside and go after that title but Muhammad was quick to remind the former champion how he constantly avoided a similar situation involving Israel Adesanya when he sat atop the welterweight mountain. “They never trained together, but he said ‘I would never fight Israel,’” Muhammad told MMA Fighting. “He also said he would never fight Khabib. I’m like bro, you never trained with them before. “When he said ‘these guys train together? Let’s get rid of that notion.’ Bro, shut up. You’ve never been in the room with Adesanya or worked out or sweated with Adesanya in your life and you made it seem like you would never fight him ever because he’s your brother.” Muhammad scoffed at Usman’s advice because Makhachev has made it clear he’s not interested in that fight either. Deep down, Muhammad thinks Usman is just projecting his own jealousy that he’s not champion anymore, and he’s lashing out at the person now holding the title. “If they’re going out there calling me out, this and that, it’s a different story,” Muhammad said about Makhachev. “But everybody’s just looking for that notion to hate on me. They’re looking for that notion because they don’t want me to be champion. They want to make it seem like I don’t belong. “But I went out there and dominated the guy who beat you twice, Usman. Leon [Edwards] killed you. He knocked you out. Put you out cold and then dominated you. I went out there and dominated him and made it look easy. So you acting like ‘I got lucky.’ Nah, bro, we’re not on the same path. We’re not on the same level.”