Leon Edwards' last-minute knockout of Kamaru Usman is the one he'll be most associated with for the rest of his life. Nothing else he could ever do in the fight game will surpass coming from well behind against the top fighter in the world in the waning seconds and scoring a dramatic knockout victory.
The circumstances between the two fights were vastly different. He was well ahead against Sobotta and the stakes weren't nearly as high as they were in the Usman fight in August. But even though many questioned his approach down the stretch in the second Usman fight, and his coach, Dave Lovell, excoriated him between the fourth and fifth rounds, urging him to pick up the pace, Edwards remained calm because he knew he could do it.
So when he met Usman in August in Salt Lake City, Utah, he perhaps wasn't given as much credit as he probably deserved. "There's technical issues that I could easily fix in training camp and what I've fixed already," Edwards said of the possibility he's a better fighter Saturday than he was on the night he won the belt."Now we're not fighting at altitude. Now we're fighting in the [United Kingdom], where I live. This is not altitude stuff, and that played a massive part in my performance that night. And it won't play a factor in the performance Saturday night.
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