Muhammad (24-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) called UFC 185-pound champ Dricus Du Plessis (23-2 MMA, 9-0 UFC) his easiest path to double-champ status. He even detailed how he’d beat Du Plessis by wearing him out and repeatedly taking him down.

Muhammad argued that the middleweight division lacks difficult challenges, excluding top contender Khamzat Chimaev. The welterweight champ dispariged UFC 313's main event title fight between Du Plessis and Sean Strickland as a prime example of the weight class' shallowness.

Muhammad wasn’t impressed by Strickland’s performance as he blasted the UFC middleweight division in a recent podcast appearance with Barstool Sports. Muhammad claimed du Plessis and the rest of the middleweights make it the ‘easiest weight class’ in the UFC and claimed the middleweight titleholder ‘sucks’.