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UFC 278 POST Show: Leon Edwards knocks out Kamaru Usman

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🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Phil Chertok review UFC 278 card featuring Leon Edwards knocking out Kamaru Usman, Paulo Costa & Luke Rockhold have a wild fight and more.

MAIN CARD

  • UFC Welterweight Championship: Kamaru Usman © vs. Leon Edwards
  • Paulo Costa vs. Luke Rockhold
  • Jose Aldo vs. Merab Dvalishvili
  • Wu Yanan vs. Lucie Pudilova
  • Tyson Pedro vs. Harry Hunsucker

PRELIMINARY CARD 

  • Marcin Tybura vs. Alexander Romanov 
  • Leonardo Santos vs. Jared Gordon
  • Sean Woodson vs. Luis Saldana 
  • Ange Loosa vs. A.J. Fletcher

EARLY PRELIMS 

  • Amir Albazi vs. Francisco Figueiredo
  • Aori Qileng vs. Jay Perrin
  • Daniel Da Silva vs. Victor Altamirano

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, it's John Pollock and Phil Chertalk with our UFC 278 post show in which

0:06.9

we have a new UFC Walter Waite champion Leon Rocky Edwards, one of the, I think one

0:15.7

of the greatest endings to a fight I've ever seen, I'm stunned as we are speaking minutes

0:21.8

after watching this of what was just, dude, Kamaro Usman was just cruising.

0:28.2

Leon, I cannot recall someone so broken in a fight that just seemed like let's just

0:32.4

get this fifth round over with.

0:34.4

I mean, it was stunning.

0:35.8

It was totally stunning.

0:37.4

Absolutely.

0:38.4

I mean, we spoke last week about this fight and how it might play out and I was predicting

0:44.5

that Leon Edwards was going to win this fight, but this was certainly not the manner.

0:50.8

And I was definitely doubting that prediction as we were heading into the fifth round.

0:56.7

I mean, this is probably a, a ending to a fight that will rank up there among the biggest

1:03.4

ever, I think, like just it wasn't just the way this fight was going where Leon Edwards

1:09.6

actually looked very good in the first round.

1:11.8

And then it was just Usman turned it on for rounds two through four and was continuing

1:18.3

that into the fifth, but then all of a sudden it's, there are 56 seconds left in the

1:24.4

fight.

1:25.4

And Leon Edwards, who's just showing nothing, absolutely nothing at the end of this

1:29.7

fight throws out this, this head kick and sleeps Kamaro Usman.

1:36.3

And it is the combination of just this spectacular finish.

1:40.7

It's a new champion.

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