Updated March 3, 2019Nigeria’s Kamaru Usman has become the first African UFC champion after comprehensively beating American Tyron Woodley at UFC 235.
Usman claimed the welterweight title in a dominant decision, outscoring the three-time defending champion 50-44, 50-44 and 50-45 on the judge’s scorecards. Originally from Nigeria and now fighting out of South Florida, Usman dominated from beginning till the end to become the first African-born champion in the UFC.MARCH 02: Kamaru Usman, of Nigeria, celebrates after defeating Tyron Woodley in a welterweight title bout during UFC 235 at T-Mobile Arena on March 02, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Usman won by unanimous decision.
His best round of the fight was the fourth when he hurt Woodley with uppercuts near the fence and came close to finishing him off.MARCH 02: Kamaru Usman, of Nigeria, kisses his daughter Samira following a welterweight title bout against Tyron Woodley during UFC 235 at T-Mobile Arena on March 02, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Congrats
Congratulations
Great!
Congrats bro
We always proud of individual success without being support of process, now is a through Nigerian, kudos broda man more success along your way.........
Congratulations, Nigerians are proud of your victory
Congratulations usman.. Keep soaring like an eagle.. U ve made us proud
We are Nigerians and not lazy.
Respect
Proud of him 💯
Congratulations, thanks for making us proud, international news outlet will not see this as head line, if its other wise they will be doing repeat broadcast
Congratulations to you USMAN84kg Am glad you wrote ur name in Gold in the history book of ufc
What's the meaning of UFC?
Congratulations man UsmanUFC
So proud of you. Congratulations
Usman,congratulations.... The sky is your beginning, more victory await you
stylebender is next
It's unfair how people ignore tweet like these and busy giving a fucking foreigner a 90k retweet the only thing you would do for Usman is letting people know
I've not heard of Usman before, I've always followed Isreal Adesanya UFC' exploit. Congratulations to Usman, more success to come.
Good achievement...
Usman celebrates Nigeria in his victory, patriotism on display
Kamaru Usman, I have been following your exploits in the UFC. Thanks for making us proud!!
Wait shey it's the usman Israel adesanya was calling.
Usman the great
Look at the names of people congratulating the guy and see the names that are not there especially the ones from SE, those people get bitterness no be small.
Congrats Africans
Glory be to God
Look at how proud we are for our brother to win, same in every others, I think we should extend that spirit to each other, be it SS, SE,SW,NW,NE and NC we are one Nigeria let's work together to move this country forward. StrongerTogether
OMO NAIJA
Am proud of you Usman
Congratulations
Success is contagious,i am happy for you my country man.Congratulations!
Loud it!!!💪
Congrats bro
Look at his mouth guard, representing Naija to the fullest.
'The GOD of fire'
So he finally ate the 🐐 like he promised ? Nice one !
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Congrats bro
Namesake’s making history. Ya RABB 🙏🏽🙏🏽