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Former UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman clapped back this week after Conor McGregor recently made disparaging comments about him.
During an appearance on the Pound 4 Pound podcast (h/t Alexander K. Lee of MMA Fighting), Usman took aim at McGregor and claimed that the Irishman had the chance to fight him in the past, but didn’t take it:
“If you wanted the opportunity to fight me, I gave Conor two opportunities to fight me. Two opportunities, while I was champion. I gave him two opportunities to fight me. I told him, ‘Hey, if you want a crack at that third belt, who better?’ I was on the run that I was on, who better that he could come up and fight. He talked about it, he bounced back and forth, when he wanted to make his return he said, ‘Yeah, maybe I’ll go up and grab the third belt.’
“It is what it is, Conor. If you wanted to fight, you had your opportunity, but you didn’t. So to call me a bum is kind of disrespectful and I didn’t disrespe