Kamaru Usman Offers Dana White Solution To Lightweight Division Matchmaking Issues and Includes Max Holloway

Former UFC welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman, has suggested a list of fights that Dana White should make to help the current issue at lightweight.

Kamaru Usman Offers Solution To Lightweight Matchmaking Issue

The UFC lightweight division has been one of the most popular weight divisions in the company’s history, with the likes of Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov holding the 155-pound belt.

Currently, the title is held by Islam Makhachev who is on a dominant run as champion, beating the likes of Dustin Poirier, Alexander Volkanovski and Charles Oliveira.

His next opponent is  set to be Justin Gaethje, as Arman Tsarukyan lost his opportunity after pulling out of his scheduled lightweight title fight against Makhachev at UFC 311.

However, a spanner has been thrown into the works in the LW division, after Ilia Topuria decided to vacate the featherweight title and move up to 155lbs.

Alongside this, Paddy Pimblett is going head-to-head with Michael Chandler and a win over Iron Mike could move the Sco to a title fight by 2026.

Usman has had his say over the current situation in the lightweight division and attempted to construct the next set of matches at 155lbs.

Kamaru Usman said: “If I had to put my bracket together, I would have to say that Islam Makhachev is fighting Justin Gaethje

“And after that, if you want to give a fantastic fight for Dustin Poirier, the retirement fight, why don’t we do the third one with Max Holloway?

“And then, I would do Arman Tsarukyan vs Charles Oliveira rematch, and then I would probably do the winner of Chandler vs Pimblett against Dan Hooker. I would do that.

“The winner of Chandler vs Pimblett takes on Dan Hooker And Ilia Topuria gets Mateusz Gamrot. The one thing that we don’t see often is Ilia Topuria on his back, now give him a relentless wrestler who is very successful in the lightweight division.”