Kamaru Usman is c0nfident of returning to the top of the mountain — not just at welterweight, but at middleweight too.

Usman, 38, will seek to end a three-fight losing streak when he battles the surging welterweight contender Joaquin Buckley in this weekend’s UFC main event fight from Atlanta, Georgia — and as the former 170-pound champion told reporters, including The Mac Life, during Wednesday’s media day, he retains confidence in his ability to win two more world title before hanging up his gloves.

“I’ll just lay out the map here,” Usman said of the path he sees stretching out in front of him. “It’s finish Buckley this weekend and then wait for the winner of, I believe, Islam and JDM, which is going to be an incredible fight. It’s such a great thing now having Islam come up into the division.

“Who wouldn’t buy a ticket to that?” Usman added. “Former pound-for-pound and current pound-for-pound. I love Islam. Islam is a great fighter. I think that’s something that we’d both remember forever.”

But as the ‘Nigerian Nightmare’ explained further, he doesn’t see his title ambitions ending in the 170-pound fold.

“[I would] win that and go ahead and probably vacate, go up,” Usman said. “Myself, Dricus Du Plessis, if he is the champion, or Khamzat Chimaev, too, if Dricus is no longer the champion, we do that. If Dricus is the champion, we do that in the first card in Africa. That’s another blockbuster. These are back-to-back blockbuster fights you tell your grandkids about.

“Who wouldn’t watch those? After that, now you’re sitting with two belts. It’s like, ‘What do we do next?’ That’s, I’d say, the long-term goal in the back of my mind.”