Douglas Lima Confident He’d ‘Probably KO’ UFC Welterweight Champ Kamaru Usman
Douglas Lima became a three-time Bellator welterweight champion this past Saturday, but he still feels a little bit under-appreciated when it comes to being recognized as one of the top 170-pound talents in the sport.
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“I think about it every time, especially after a win like this, because I know real MMA fans, they recognize,” Lima recently told TMZ Sports. “They know I’m up there with those guys. They know I can fight any of them. But most of them are like, ‘Man, you’re not in the UFC, you’re a nobody, and I hate that. That’s people that don’t understand the sport.”
Lima’s resume also includes victories over the likes of Michael
Page, Andrey
Koreshkov (twice), Lorenz
Larkin, Paul Daley and
Ben
Saunders (twice), to name a few. The 31-year-old Brazilian
would like to see Bellator do co-promotion with the UFC one day,
although that remains highly unlikely.
“It’s not the name ‘UFC,’ or ‘Bellator,’ or ‘ONE FC’ – there’s killers everywhere, and I’ve been fighting all these guys. I’ve been beating them,” Lima said. “[I’m a] three-time world champion, three tournament (wins), but they still don’t believe me. Now that [Bellator president] Scott Coker is doing the co-promotions – he’s doing that with Rizin – I would love if we would do that with the UFC.”
Lima is confident that given the opportunity, he would end reigning UFC champ Kamaru Usman’s 14-fight winning streak.
“Of course I’ll do great – I’ll beat him,” Lima said. “I’ll probably KO him, you know. But he’s a great wrestler, for sure. He wrestles a lot. But man, any point in that fight if I connect, I can put him away. I don’t even think about that. I just know that I can beat him.
“I know I can beat anybody at this weight class. I’m not talking bad about the guy. He’s the champion there. He’s doing his thing. But I just know it, man – if one day something like this happened, I definitely believe in myself to just go over there and just kill it.”
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