Name: Leon Edwards on the Belal Muhammad Fight
Uploaded: 2021-03-18T17:36:13.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Leon Edwards on the Belal Muhammad Fight' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Leon Edwards on the Belal Muhammad Fight' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-18. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience well I think some guys can at certain stages right
like there's moments in fights but don't you feel like you're in a zone
sometimes and it just everything's flowing Saturday night Saturday night
yeah I felt good all backstage because leading up to the fight everyone's like
ring rust ring rust so I was kind of waiting for some feeling to say where's
ring rust right but I felt great backstage and I preferred fighting would
with no crowd did you really yeah okay you get to do today apex and it's like
you
get there you wrap your hands you warm up you fight there's no hanging around
for
five hours backstage and just it's like a gym right you get there you warmed
and
just go compete so I preferred it for sure do you prefer it because of there's
no
noise no distractions no nothing and you can hear your coaches clearly yeah
instructions clearly I'm a very good listener to my coaches so I wouldn't say I
prefer it but it was
it was good I enjoyed it you have been in a very interesting position over the
last few years where
you are one of the top UFC welter welterweights but just big because of bad
fortune
just things just haven't totally lined up correctly yeah fights have fallen
apart injuries and sicknesses and a bunch of shit went down and
you're until Saturday night you you had been kind of ignored by a lot of fans
like a lot of people don't understand what the level you're at they don't
understand I think they saw it for the brief moment
that happened that you fought Saturday night but then unfortunately there's the
injury you know Bilal has the
accidental eye poke and it's another you know another unfortunate situation but
at least during that first round yeah the first round they got to see your
skill level yeah for sure and I was just getting warmed up as well I got over
the last year and a half I've learned so much that I want to show and to have
that incident happen
it's like it's like it's one in a million right when you're preparing you can't
be like I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do that and then when that
happened I was like okay take five minutes let play out a little bit then
hopefully you can
fight again but he's just he's always that bad because I was so far yeah and
there was it it was a not quite it
wasn't a poke now I want to poke it was like a knuckle it's like you you're
kicking right so yeah when you're
kicking you don't hold you don't hold your fist and kick like this right you
kind of use it to momentum
to swing your arm back and as I was doing it it kind of just like grazed his
eyes well not grazed it kind
of went deep but it grazed his eyes a bit and then but was it like the front knuckles
it looked like it
from the pictures yeah I couldn't tell I didn't feel it I thought it was the
the the kick that got him in
his body and then felt down at the start you know they wouldn't start grabbing
his eyes I was like oh
I got I got I caught him in his eye you know right I thought it was just
literally the kick that caught
him because I did this and then I think Dana put a photo on his instagram Jamie
I think it was a knuckle
you weren't you weren't the yeah this for sure it's uh so unfortunate man but I
mean for you what I was
getting at was that it has to be so frustrating here you are another ad blocker
here here you
are you have this long layoff yeah and fights keep getting canceled and then
you finally get a fight
you're performing really well and then this happens it's like the bad luck
right the last the last year
or so just one after another after the Woodley fight I meant to fight Woodley
in um in London in March
and um had that cancelled the week before on the Sunday before the fight and
then from there just bad
look bad look bad look bad look trickling down so
so yeah it's like yeah it's like the bottom of your finger yeah so it's not
like it's straightforward
it's like it's just getting in there that's terrible and it wasn't the eyeball
right it's like
the under the eyelid yeah you know car so I saw below um Sunday in a casino in
Vegas and his eyes was fine
that's the it's the lid that um that was bruised but yeah he said the the
vision started returning
the next day and now he said there's no permanent damage so he's gonna be okay
he had his lid stitched
up yeah I wish him well so so good yeah he's a great guy and uh uh it was a
great opponent for
you too because he's so relentless he's you know he's constantly moving forward
he's a tough guy he's
durable yeah he's very comfortable with a head kick in the first round and I
kind of rushed my
work a little bit I kind of went wild and started swinging swinging for him but
I should have picked
my shots a little bit better but he's tough he's durable but he doesn't beat me
in any given day you
know I I believe if we fight 10 times I'll beat him 10 times and that's just it
is he was a late
stepping for hands that fell out and I think he should go back work his way
back up and then hopefully we
can meet somewhere down the line but for now I'm looking towards the title shot
I'm looking towards
being a world champion do you think that uh the title shot is warranted just
because your previous
work and just because of the great first round that you had but I mean do you
feel like there's any
unfinished business because of the way that fight ended with Bilal yeah with
Bilal um I don't believe
so I think from the first round I'm normally I'm a slow starter right so if
that's my if that's my first
round you're not making it to the to the fifth you know so um I think everyone
saw where the fight was
going and he wouldn't have made it to number five so I understand your
confidence I really do and this
is not to demean that at all but you gotta you gotta give the guy an
opportunity right like you know
what I'm saying like if here's my point if the fight went the first round if
the eye poke didn't
happen the referee just stopped the fighter but like what are you doing well
you know where this fight's
going well you don't know where a fight's going because fights are crazy like
weird happens
people slip guy gets them in a choke like weird stuff happens you know people
get injured you know
someone throws a calf kick all of a sudden your leg goes numb you're getting
hit with a punch
weird happens you fights are crazy you know that it's crazy but um you know
what I'm saying though
I know I know what you're saying but I would have I would have won that fight
clearly
Joe normally normally I'm a slow starter in the first round right I know like
so
I would have felt great Saturday night and even if I felt good Bilal is not
beating me
completely appreciate your confidence but as a fan of you yeah and as a fan of
Bilal yeah um I don't
think it would be a bad thing to run back not straight away I'm looking to that's
my nine my nine
fight right in a row um eight I won an eight five win streak for Bilal um I
would have won the fight
so that would be nine fight um without without a loss from getting um beat by
husband five six years
ago so I feel I've done enough work now to prove that uh I belong at least in
the more contender
fight or title fight you know so I can totally appreciate your position but I
can also appreciate
Bilal's position I know where it's coming from obviously if I was him I'd
probably do the same thing
right he's ranked number 13 14 and yeah this big opportunity is first main
event um number three
guy in the world so I know where he's approaching it from but I am looking
looking for my own career
right I want to look towards the title shot I understand hopefully we'll get it
yeah you've had
all these weird situations where things fell apart it's uh it's very
unfortunate and uh did you feel
like the Hamzat fight was strange too because like here's this guy who has only
had a few fights in the
UFC he's got a lot of hype behind him because he's had like the Mirchart fight
was a great result
he looked fantastic but then also he's fighting you yeah like it was weird
right because we two weeks
before that Dana White came out and he's like uh nah I'm never gonna fight Leon
or no one in top five
but then next week he's like Leon you want to fight him I was like you just
said oh you I'm too high
ranked for him but um where do you think that came from I don't know I don't
know I think everyone
was turning him down you know and um no one everyone's turning me down as well
so just okay
you want to fight him I was okay look what about Kobe is that Kobe said no what
about Marcelo
Marcelo said no what about wonder boy wonder boy is injured that's okay you got
the most hype in
the division now um that I could like piggyback off to get to a world title
shot right and this was
a kid then the white build him up is this this kid that can't be beaten is
tough and so I was like
okay I'll go out there I'll I'll fight him and when I beat him I'll fight for
the world title and that was my plan
right to use um this hype they're building around him to get me to a world
title shot come on I'm always
looking towards the title shot right so anywhere I can get there easier um I'll
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