“Do you want to put this old f*rt with no knees in a title fight? You can't count on a guy like that who is just a coward”

– criticizing the idea of giving Kamaru Usman a title shot

“You know a lot about getting your head kicked in”

– Belal's reply to Usman's dork comment via X

“Kamaru Usman's injured. He's not fighting. He's staying on the sidelines. He's 1—3 in his last four fights, and he's trying to talk big game... That was the fight that made the most sense. We had a podcast where I slapped him. And, you’d want to get your get back. But the fact that he didn't, he knows that the slap hurt him, and he knows that it’s just a bad matchup for him”

– via No Scripts podcast

“As a man, for somebody to slap you and you to say no,... and for you to not post it or talk about it, it just shows what type of person you are. He’s a coward”

– via No Scripts podcast

“You’re cocky. You’re young. You only have one loss [to Shavkat Rakhmonov] that you’re proud of because you didn’t get finished but this is a different animal. You’ve never been in the cage with anybody like me. You’ve never seen anybody like me, and on November 22, you’re going to be broken like you’ve never been broken before.”

“We’ve already seen you on the ground, b*tt in the air, close to being broken. Prates just couldn’t finish the job. When I’m in there with you, I’m going to beat you up. It’s going to be a bad day, a bad night for you. I just want to get this loss off my back. I need to get back on the right side. I’m the best in the division. I know I’m the best in the division. November 22, I get to prove it again. I get to go out there, dominate, and then get back to where I belong, and that’s for the welterweight title.”