Episode 513: Leon Edwards has waited years for this. Can he cash in?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On Saturday in Salt Lake City (man it still feels weird to type that), Leon Edwards' long, strange journey to a UFC welterweight title shot finally comes to a head. Edwards will fight champion Kamaru Usman in the main event of UFC 278, where Edwards is going off as close to a 3-to-1 underdog. It's been such a long slog, with so many broken promises and missed opportunities, how will Edwards react when he's out there for real? Plus, Dom Cruz looked OK right up to the point Marlon Vera kicked him in his damn face. And Rory MacDonald walks away. This episode is brought to you by NordVPN. CME listeners can grab their EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to https://nordvpn.com/comain to get up a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 months for free! It’s completely risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast, and now your hosts, Ben Fulks and Chad Dundas.
0:17.9	That's right, you're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:24.8	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists. And for the last 10 years,
0:30.6	we've been meeting here every single week to break down all the action in the wild, weird,
0:35.8	and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts.
0:40.0	Ben, it was a packed weekend in MMA.
0:42.7	We had the UFC down there in San Diego, some PFL, some Bellator.
0:48.2	I think we're going to spend most of this episode of the co-main event podcast talking about
0:52.8	this UFC fight night event where Marlon
0:55.2	Vera emerged with the CO win over Dominic Cruz in the men's band and weight main event.
1:02.2	A bunch of good fights on this card, honestly.
1:04.3	And we are going to mix in as much talk about all of that as we can over there.
1:10.7	In the PFL, Rory McDonald has retired from active MMA competition.
1:18.3	So we will spend a little bit of time talking about that.
1:21.4	It's a little bit of breaking news earlier today, though.
1:23.4	We found out Shane Burgos.
1:25.4	He's going to cross the aisle and go over there and fight in PFL.
1:29.1	He announced that on the MMA hour earlier today.
1:32.0	It sounded to me like he had a fairly right thinking and pragmatic set of reasoning behind this decision.
1:38.9	Did you agree with that?
1:40.3	You know what?
1:41.5	If you're in prize fighting and you tell me you're jumping shit because somebody else has offered you more prizes,
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