The UFC 310 pay-per-view (PPV) event is less than a month away and still does not have a five-round main event after current welterweight champion, Belal Muhammad, withdrew from the Las Vegas fight card to recover from a nasty infection, writes mmamania.com.

There was talk of having former 170-pound titleholder, Kamaru Usman, step in to battle undefeated contender Shavkat Rakhmonov; however, “The Nigerian Nightmare” has passed on that opportunity because December 7 is “too early” to fight.

“To be honest, it’s a fight that I’ve looked at and I know it’s definitely a very, very winnable fight and I know that I can, of all people, go out there and expose what hasn’t been exposed in a young, hungry, streaky guy in Shavkat Rakhmonov,” Usman said on Pound 4 Pound. “He’s very talented, he’s very, very good, but I do see the holes and I think that I can exploit that when that time is right but December 7 might be a little too early for that time.”