After Colby Covington employed his dad’s death “for fun,” Leon Edwards cried out in “rage.”
Last Saturday night, Leon Edwards got back at Colby Covington. He’s a great fighter, but he’s also a dirty person.
“It was hard for me to center myself, calm down, and join this fight.” I talked to my teachers and my mom about it, and then I just shut it down.
As expected, the current UFC welterweight champion Edwards successfully protected his title against the very controversial Covington. The fight went five rounds, and all three judges scored it 49–46 in favor of Edwards.
In an interview with Joe Rogan shortly after the win, Edwards said that the title defense proved emotional because Covington made fun of the death for his father, who was killed in a London bar when Edwards was 13.
“This was a difficult fight for me,” the Englishman from Jamaica, 32, said. “This guy made fun of my dad’s death; he meant to murder my dad for fun.”
That was it. I went backstage after the press meeting. It was just the anger that made me cry. He told my dad that he should burn in hell.
His mistake was to use my dad’s death for fun, which is not okay. It still breaks my heart that someone killed him.
“It was tough to keep myself in check.” “I was angry and shaking even at the weigh-ins,” he said. “I told my mom and coaches, ‘F-k this guy.
Just focus on yourself. He wants you to go out there or fight mentally and emotionally swing all over the place.'”
“Everyone was bothered by it,” White said. You should never go after family, whether it’s the kids, the wife, your parents, or anyone else. It’s just mean.”
But once more, this is among those games where bad things happen 24 hours after you say them. It was clear that what he stated was wrong, but I tried to ignore it and do my job.
Edwards won the UFC middleweight title by shockingly knocking out Kamaru Usman with a head kick in August of last year. He beat Usman again in March for his first title defense.
Colby Covington talked a lot of trash about Leon Edwards before the fight, but Edwards kept calm and put on a great show.
It was majority decision (49-46, 49-46, 49-46) for Edwards to beat Covington in the main event of UFC 296 in Saturday night that T-Mobile Arena. With the win, Edwards protected his UFC middleweight title for the second time.
It was mostly Edwards’s game. Covington couldn’t push the pace like he usually does, and Edwards was able to pick him apart with kicks from the outside.
At Thursday’s news conference before the fight, the anger between both men reached a boiling point.
He told Edwards that he would take him to the “seventh layer of hell” and that they might see his late father there.
Both Covington and Edwards were on the dais when Edwards threw an entire water container that Covington. They had to be separated.
When Edwards was 13, his father was shot and killed. After the fight, Edwards said he cried out of “rage” after Thursday’s press conference and that it took quite a while for him to calm down.
Edwards said, “This fight made me feel a lot.” “This person made fun of my dad’s death.” He found pleasure in killing my dad. It took a lot for myself to calm down, keep my mind on the fight, and show up.
“It’s not okay to use my father’s death for fun; he did that himself, you know.” It still breaks my heart that he was killed and that he said my dad ought to die in hell.
Edwards hit Covington in leg kicks all the time. He also hit him with left fists and check straight hooks from the Southpaw, which hurt Covington on the mouth and then the nose.
Great wrestler Covington was able to knock Edwards out a few times, but Edwards was ready to get back up and even knock Covington out a few times after being in ground control for a while in the fifth. Two out of ten times Covington tried to take the fight down, but failed.
The sprinter said, “I knew I was the better one.” “Everyone at training camp kept talking about how much cardio he was doing.”
In terms of fitness, I also wanted to be able to keep up with him over the distance. I could also block his strikes with my technique as well as range, which is what I did in the end.