Daniel Cormier has made a bold claim regarding the current UFC welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman. He claims he will never call him ‘Marty' ever again.

The name ‘Marty' came up during the trash-talk with Ben Askren and Colby Covington. They were calling the UFC heavyweight champion ‘Marty from Nebraska.'

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“You know what I love about that story, though, with Usman, is he said when he started wrestling, they didn’t want to put the effort into calling him by his full name [Kamarudeen],” the UFC commentator said on The DC Check-In So, they said, ‘Let’s just call him Marty.’ And then, he had just accepted that. But then, you know, as he became a man, he goes, ‘No. I will be called by my name. I will be called by my given name. Respect me enough to put the [effort]. He almost grew up into his name.”

“And for me, that is so special,” Daniel Cormier continued on Kamaru Usman. “Right? You love that he grew into his name. He’s so strong now – as a champion and as a face of the UFC – that that whole story to me is.” Cormier explained, “Because we all called him that. That’s what you called him in wrestling because that’s what everybody else called him. But I will never call him that again because he asked me for; as a friend, as a man that I knew from wrestling, he goes, ‘Hey, man. Call me Kamaru.’”

The ‘Marty' story was an interesting one as the UFC champion couldn't get people to call him by his real name. Now everyone knows Kamaru Usman and how to properly say his name.