“Going home, you got to see it first-hand,” Usman said. “I have a responsibility to motivate this and that person. I have a responsibility to continue to do what I can and do what I do so those people can look at me and say, ‘I can one day,’ or at least, ‘I’m going to try.’
“It was special, extremely special, for me to go home and see that.”
Usman, who has already defended his title twice this year with a pair of knockouts, hope to add another ruby to his UFC belt at UFC 268 in New York City. There, he is scheduled to face Colby Covington, a rematch of their epic title fight at UFC 245 in which Usman won via fifth-round TKO.
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