Kamaru Usman prices himself out of Israel Adesanya fight with $100million claim

Kamaru Usman has priced himself out of a fight with Israel Adesanya after claiming it would take $100 million for him to enter the octagon with his "brother".

Usman is currently the reigning welterweight champion and is ranked as the leading pound-for-pound fighter in the promotion.

The Nigerian has proposed a switch to middleweight in a bid to become double-champion after Jan Blachowicz faced Adesanya for the light-heavyweight belt.

However, Usman has now claimed that he is unlikely to make the move to middleweight while Adesanya holds the belt.

“I’ve said it before, as long as Israel Adesanya is the champion, I have no interest in going there," Usman told Jim Rome.

"But when Jan Blachowicz was the champion at light heavyweight, of course, I thought it was a great matchup.

"I’m not saying I would just demolish the whole light heavyweight division. I’m saying I thought that was a great matchup, and I thought that I would have been a two-time champion, and skipping middleweight and becoming the light heavyweight champion.

“I’ve said it before, Adesanya’s a fellow Nigerian. A good guy. I like him, I like his approach. I’ve said it — I’d rather two Nigerians have belts than one Nigerian with two belts.

“If Dana [White] is willing to sit us down and say, $100 million, ‘Hey guys, let’s split this up,’ at that point Israel and I would have to talk.

"Because at that point, my little brother, my blood brother, we would have to talk and say, ‘Hey, let’s go out here and make this money.’”

The Nigerian pair have made a serious impression on the promotion with Adesanya now having signed a contract to make him the second highest-paid star in the UFC.

Usman will now face a couple of months out of action after having hand