The whole Islame Title Reign situation is so fk up if you look deeper into it....
1. Gets TS with one Top5 win in Hooker
2. Before his TS in AD Charles was begging the UFC to fight a few months later against Islame because the AD fight 2022 was his 4th title fight in 17 months! That means every 4,1 months in average he had a title fight. The poor dude was jumping from one fight camp into the next for 2 years and just wanted a short break of 2-3 extra months.
3. After winning the fight he called out Volk and gave him a super close date so that Volk would not have enough time to bulk up propperly and with that he basically fought a featherweight with no weightcut for his first TD
4. After the Volk fight Islame knew that his next fight would be in 8 months in AD and he knew his next challenger would be either Charles or Beneil, so he had +8 months to recover 100% from all injuries, study both possibilities and get into a perfectly prepared fght camp. Well, while Charles or Beneil (turned out to be Charles) had only 4 months between their fight and AD BUT THE VERY BEST was that they announced the fight only at the end of July, giving the new challenger 2,5 months to prepare while Islame had, as written above, full 8 months for all.
5. During AD2023 he chose Volk, who just a month prior came from surgery, who was not training and nothing, over the nominated Gamrot.
6. He refused to fight before Ramadan after the UFC offered him a fight (also a TS for UFC300 but well let that slip as he is some kind of religous fanat) and said he is injured only to then come up with a potential june fight after all his possible challengers got matched against each other.
7. He asked for one of the challengers who just won to fight him within 6weeks while he was preparing since last year November for a potential fight.