Leon Edwards on 'Coward' Colby Covington Turning Down Fight, Title Shot Hopes in 2021

MMA Fighting

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🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Leon Edwards addresses his upcoming fight at UFC Vegas 21 while calling Colby Covington a "coward" for turning down a chance to face him. He also discusses Khamzat Chimaev's situation with COVID-19, fighting Belal Muhammad and his hopes for a title fight rematch with Kamaru Usman later this year. 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.
0:04.8	Damon Martin MMA fighting and today my interview is with Leon Edwards.
0:09.2	Obviously, he had a very tumultuous 2020 after multiple fight cancellations.
0:13.9	He got COVID-19 and then he was scheduled for a couple of different fights against
0:18.4	Hamza Chimaya.
0:19.4	Both of those fell apart as well.
0:21.5	Now he's taking on Balal Mohammed in the main event at UFC Vegas 21.
0:25.5	So we're going to talk to Leon about that fight.
0:28.2	The fights didn't come together for this card and his aspirations for a title shot later
0:33.0	this year.
0:34.0	Leon, man, how is everything?
0:36.8	I know it's been kind of a crazy wild ride to finally get here to where you were actually
0:41.7	about to fight again.
0:43.2	I don't know excitement relief.
0:45.7	How are you feeling?
0:47.7	I think it's both really, I think is excitement relief to finally be here in Vegas and finally
0:54.2	got to fight ahead.
0:55.4	So I'm excited and looking forward to going back out there and showing the fans of
1:00.6	what I'm about again.
1:02.1	I can't wait.
1:03.1	Yeah.
1:04.1	What kind of give me like this roller coaster because we talked, you know, obviously
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