{"id":386895,"date":"2022-04-29T03:34:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T03:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=386895"},"modified":"2022-04-29T03:34:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T03:34:03","slug":"low-lives-like-you-that-are-around-the-sport-that-has-destroyed-it-for-everyone-kamaru-usman-hits-out-at-showtime-executive-famously-branded-a-weasel-by-conor-mcgreg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/low-lives-like-you-that-are-around-the-sport-that-has-destroyed-it-for-everyone-kamaru-usman-hits-out-at-showtime-executive-famously-branded-a-weasel-by-conor-mcgreg\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Low Lives\u00a0Like You That Are Around the Sport That Has Destroyed It for Everyone\u201d- Kamaru Usman Hits Out at Showtime Executive Famously Branded a \u2018Weasel\u2019 by Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018The Nigerian Nightmare\u2019 Kamaru Usman has been making his case for a fight against boxing\u2019s pound-for-pound king Canelo Alvarez for a while now. Usman believes that a fight between the pound-for-pound best across two sports is a fight that the fans would love to see and is something that has not been done before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the welterweight <a href=\"https:\/\/ufc.com\/\">UFC<\/a> champion has faced a lot of backlash for the idea from multiple people in boxing. The most recent person to join that list was Showtime executive Stephen Espinoza, who replied to one of Usman\u2019s tweet at Alvarez saying, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLOL. UFC fighters want that boxing paycheck but don&#8217;t understand that boxers have the autonomy to choose opponents. It&#8217;s not about not wanting &#8220;smoke.&#8221; It&#8217;s about professional self-determination, a foreign concept to those who let the kickboxing instructor choose their fights.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our fans know who the best is because \u201cThe best fight The best\u201d not run &amp; hide and fight nobody\u2019s with those plastic belts &amp; call themselves \u201csuper champion\u201d. Keep quiet next time &amp; if you need lessons on how to save that dying sport let me know I\u2019ve got Dana on speed dial\ud83d\udc4a\ud83c\udfff<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KAMARU USMAN (@USMAN84kg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USMAN84kg\/status\/1519791132468723712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018The Nigerian Nightmare\u2019 hit back at Espinoza saying, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoxing is a beautiful \u201cArt\u201d with some amazing athletes, and even a couple of good promoters. The problem is low lives\u00a0like you that are around the sport that has destroyed it for everyone. Take notes from What Dana has done.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Usman continued,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cOur fans know who the best is because \u201cThe best fight The best\u201d not run &amp; hide and fight nobody\u2019s with those plastic belts &amp; call themselves \u201csuper champion\u201d. Keep quiet next time &amp; if you need lessons on how to save that dying sport let me know I\u2019ve got Dana on speed dial.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:-<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/colby-covington-alleges-brain-injury-from-jorge-masvidal-altercation\/\">Colby Covington alleges brain injury from Jorge Masvidal altercation<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Kamaru Usman is slowly but surely creeping his way into the boxing community\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just a few months back, Usman failed to even get a reaction beyond \u2018payday\u2019 from the champion Canelo Alvarez. Nowadays, \u2018The Nigerian Nightmare\u2019 is going back and forth with multiple personalities in the boxing world just after a single tweet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-386896 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image01-22.jpeg\" alt=\"Kamaru Usman\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image01-22.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image01-22-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image01-22-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image01-22-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although this does not guarantee a fight with Alvarez down the line, it makes sure that Usman\u2019s name stays buzzing in the boxing community. It will be interesting to see if the back and forth actually materializes into a fight for \u2018The Nigerian Nightmare.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The Nigerian Nightmare\u2019 Kamaru Usman has been making his case for a fight against boxing\u2019s pound-for-pound king Canelo Alvarez for a while now. Usman believes that a fight between the pound-for-pound best across two sports is a fight that the fans would love to see and is something that has not been done before.\u00a0 However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":386897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}