Kamaru Usman Looks to Avenge Loss vs Leon Edwards in UFC 286 & How Being a Dad Helped Find Strength

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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FOLLOW THE PIVOT PODCAST: MERCH | https://pivotpodcast.com YOUTUBE | https://www.youtube.com/thepivotpodcast INSTAGRAM | https://instagram.com/thepivot TWITTER | https://twitter.com/thepivot TIKTOK | https://tiktok.com/@thepivot FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thepivotpodcast FOLLOW HAPPY DAD: https://www.instagram.com/happydad FIND HAPPY DAD: https://www.happydad.com/find In a stunning and unexpected loss this past August against Leon, Kamaru was dominating the entire match until Leon landed a kick to his head that knocked the Nigerian Champion out and gave Leon a come-from-behind upset victory. Never experiencing such an outcome, it was a struggle at first to rewatch it but Kamaru talks about the hardest part was seeing his daughter sad which in turn altered his mindset reminding him he needs to show her it’s ok to fall once in awhile but getting back up is what matters. With many worried that the mental toll of the loss and gravity of it is something difficult to overcome, Kamaru isn’t concerned with that part and confidently says that he knows who he is and what he’s capable of and needs to remind Leon who he is, a fighter that was down the entire time and dying on inside and got lucky landing one move. Refocused and more than ready, Kamaru understands the stakes this bout offers and is ready mentally and physically to regain his spot atop the ufc world. The final match of the trilogy match between Leon and Kamaru is this Saturday on ESPN+. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	But I said you right there brother right here. Yeah, you can beat all of that
0:06.4	He's gonna be skinny ooze my nod up. He's about to be skinny. It was my head on wearing shirt open
0:12.2	When he get closer when he get close to fight night, you know, I'm saying. Yeah, I do wear it open
0:17.2	That's when everything is lean. That's when you get you know, you can have got to show out
0:21.6	Yeah, you know, ever show out, Chan who I can't pull out my body my face and everything else is so appealing
0:27.3	Pull out the body. You running down the street. I got a stole something
0:31.0	What was it that night we were at a spot in Vegas?
0:34.5	We had dinner me you AZ you were with Jordan
0:39.0	And we seen you at the table in the front Kevin Hart floor. Oh, you guys were there? Yeah, Delilah. Yeah, Delilah
0:46.6	Y'all boys was getting it in. Yeah, man. We were in the cut
0:51.2	I did not know y'all was there
0:53.6	That was when Kevin shut it down and
0:56.6	The private event. Yeah, it was dope. Yeah, I didn't know y'all was in there. Yeah, we was in the cut
1:02.0	We we was still almost famous. We're not
1:04.8	Yeah, we couldn't see the show table. You know a little bit
1:08.8	It felt like we was in the NBA. Oh, cuz it was a lot of short
1:13.7	It was
1:23.6	Got me up
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1:43.9	Chan I'm RC to our partners happy that you could throw me one
1:48.7	You know what I mean? I'll go and see make sure this altitude don't kill me. No training
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