HOAM | UFC 286 Aftermath, Leon Edwards Retains, Colby Covington Next, More

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Leon Edwards was on the right side of his trilogy with Kamaru Usman and retained his welterweight title in the main event of UFC 286. Following the event, UFC President Dana White created quite the stir by announcing that Colby Covington would be next for "Rocky." On an all-new edition of Heck of a Morning, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck reacts to Edwards' big win, Covington getting the next shot and why it shouldn't be a surprise, Belal Muhammad getting skipped over and now being targeted to fight Shavkat Rakhmonov, and the timing of the announcement with Gilbert Burns and Jorge Masvidal being scheduled to fight at UFC 287. Additionally, listener questions include Justin Gaethje's big win over Rafael Fiziev, a potential rematch between Gaethje and Dustin Poirier, and more. You can listen live to Heck of a Morning Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 10 a.m. ET on the MMA Fighting Twitter Spaces. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:04.0	All right everybody, it is Tuesday March 21st, 2023, it is indeed a heck of a morning
0:27.3	we are live on the M.A. Fighting Twitter space so you can hear the show and its entirety
0:31.5	shorter thereafter on the M.A. Fighting Podcast Network.
0:35.0	I am Mike Heck, hope everyone's having a great start to their week.
0:38.3	We are coming off of UFC 286 this past Saturday, which emanated from the O2 arena in London
0:47.7	England.
0:49.0	In the end, Leon Edwards defeats Kamara Usman via majority decision to retain his
0:55.8	well-to-way title.
0:58.1	What a moment it was for Leon Edwards, exercise the demons.
1:02.1	Anybody who said that the headkick was a fluke, he kind of annihilated all of that.
1:08.8	I thought it was a great performance from Leon, Kamara kind of, I mean one of the big questions
1:16.0	was his father time catching up with a guy like Kamara Usman.
1:20.7	I'm not saying that that's why the fight played out the way that it did, but you could
1:25.2	tell Usman has lost a little bit of a step.
1:29.1	As Judmish you like to say, no longer has his 98-mile an hour fastball if you will, but
1:35.6	he still fought well.
1:36.7	It was a competitive fight, and in the end Leon Edwards gets it done prior to that.
1:41.6	Justin Gachi, Rafael Fazeev, just beat the hell out of each other for 15 minutes for
1:45.4	our entertainment.
1:47.0	The fight was incredible.
1:49.0	Justin Gachi's third round was really fascinating to watch, watching him move around and jab
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