Becoming A Fighter: Leon Edwards

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Surprise! While Jim and Matt take some time off for the holiday, check out the third installment of the UFC's newest podcast: Becoming a Fighter. Becoming A Fighter is a new show hosted by Megan Olivi that aims to learn why your favorite UFC athletes became fighters. Fight fans are familiar with Leon Edwards' struggles during the pandemic to book a fight. But being born in Jamaica as the son of a gang leader, Leon is no stranger to adversity. He had to overcome unimaginable loss and struggle just to get his shot in the UFC. This show asks the simple question: How did he get here?

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0:00.0	Matt and I are off until Wednesday from Memorial Day. But until then we have a special bonus episode
0:05.6	of the UFC's newest podcast for you to check out shows called Becoming a Fighter and is hosted by
0:11.8	our good friend Megan Olivy. This episode is about Leon Edwards who met you and I love Leon Edwards
0:17.2	and we're all familiar. He's had a lot of struggles during the pandemic, but as you're going to hear
0:20.4	he's had to overcome a lot more in his life just to earn a spot on the UFC roster. So enjoy this
0:25.9	episode of Becoming a Fighter with Megan Olivy featuring Leon Edwards and we'll see you again
0:31.9	next Wednesday. I've been broke, I've been the bottom of the pile long for many times, ups and
0:41.9	down in my life. Broad up in violence and poverty getting involved in gang crimes.
0:49.5	These boys beat me up. The two versus one you know.
0:59.2	I don't want to kill the police station many times to get me out of police station.
1:05.4	Gave me the hold to gun. My self is playing with it, I look and I ain't going to enough.
1:14.8	Other fighters on our roster they sometimes talk about being gangsters and they use it as a way
1:19.2	to sort of demonstrate their toughness. For you when you see that being covered in the press what's
1:24.1	your reaction? It's too fine, it was the least of my words as a kid you know. I'm not,
1:28.4	he used to be getting killed and shot and stabbing my own fistfight without one of the least
1:33.6	words for me as a kid you know. Leon Edwards in the blue, Seth, Bessinski. Leon Edwards by
1:52.6	signature. Ladies and gentlemen, your main event winner, Leon Rocky Edwards. Leon Edwards is a problem.
2:04.4	Since he got into the UFC in 2014, he's passed every test the UFC has thrown at him.
2:09.8	Currently he's on an eight fight win streak that spans over six years. His last loss was in 2015
2:17.7	against Camaro Usman. Yeah, you know, the champ. Leon has defeated both legends of the sport and
2:24.3	hard-nosed veterans with ease. There's no question that Leon belongs in the same conversation as the
2:39.8	best fighters in the welterweight division. But for some reason that still feels like a point of
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