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The welterweight title holder has some surprising ambitions for life after fighting.
MMA seems like one of the stranger bases for an eventual career in fight prevention, but it seems that’s the path that Kamaru Usman has chosen. The current UFC welterweight champion has run up an unbeaten 11-0 record in the Octagon (15-1 overall), having captured his first title belt just last year against Tyron Woodley at UFC 235.
And while it doesn’t sound like he’s walking away from fighting anytime soon (he recently told Joe Rogan he hopes to make somewhere in the neighborhood of $250 million over the course of his UFC career, which could take a minute), the ‘Nigerian Nightmare’ is already making plans for what he’d like to spend his time on—once his days of fighting are through.
“I want to be a marriage counselor,” Usman told Rogan (transcript via MMA Junkie). “I think I’ve always been very good at being able to step back from situations of what’s going on and give advice. I do this with my friends.”
“(I want to be) just a counselor of some sort,” Usman he added. “When I leave this world, I want to leave it in a better situation than what it came in.”
In the meantime, however, Usman has his own, more physical confrontations to look after. The ‘Hard Knocks 365’ fighter most recently made headlines for his public war of words with Jorge Masvidal at a Super Bowl media event. The two men are tentatively booked to face off for the second defense of Usman’s title during International Fight Week, which is usually scheduled for the first week in July.