Jorge Masvidal desires to settle his beef with Leon Edwards.
Earlier this month, Edwards was completed for the primary time in his profession when Sean Brady submitted him in the primary occasion of UFC London. It was the second consecutive loss for the previous welterweight champion and dropped “Rocky” effectively outdoors the title dialog for the foreseeable future. And on condition that many followers hope that Edwards and Masvidal can lastly meet within the cage, as does Masvidal.
“We’ll determine it out for the subsequent one,” Masvidal advised Submission Radio when requested why he wasn’t combating at UFC 314 in Miami. “We’re coming again, we’re going to make it work. However like I stated, so long as it’s a Leon-type combat, we’ll positively be the one to get it proper. Leon combat in opposition to your boy, [that’s] the place we must be at.”
Masvidal and Edwards’s beef dates again to a UFC London card in 2019. Edwards gained a cut up choice over Gunnar Nelson within the co-main occasion, whereas Masvidal knocked out Darren Until in the primary occasion. However after the occasion, the 2 had a backstage altercation the place Masvidal punched Edwards. And he’s able to do it once more on a second’s discover.
“I’ll whoop that boy’s ass tomorrow,” Masvidal stated when requested a couple of timeline for his return. “He’s at all times recognized since day-motherf*cking-one. Because the first day he crossed the road with me — pop, pop, pop, pop, pow! He is aware of. Don’t play that with me. I’ll come off the sofa and whoop your ass. So watch out what you say, Leon.
However I’m simply chilling proper now. Nothing’s promised. And I’m 40 years previous. The whole lot’s gotta be proper. You guys gotta inform me, I’ve gotta see, and this and that, as a result of I did form of retire, ? But when it’s proper and so they inform me, ‘We’re gonna handle this, we’ve obtained the Leon combat,’ let’s go! I’m prepared.”
Masvidal retired from MMA in 2023 after which had a boxing match with Nate Diaz in July of 2024. Earlier this 12 months, Masvidal introduced his intention to return to the UFC out of retirement, however “Gamebred” has but to be booked for something. However regardless of his day off and the truth that he ended his UFC run on a four-fight shedding streak, Masvidal is supremely assured he’ll placed on a present for the followers and provides Edwards far more than a three-piece with the soda after they do match up.
“In each means, form, and kind,” Masvidal stated when requested how he beats Edwards. “I do know for one factor, he can’t wrestle me for 5 rounds. So I don’t have to fret concerning the takedowns. And I do know on the ft, he’s fragile in comparison with me. The opponents we’ve confronted, what he’s been in a position to do to them and what I’ve been in a position to do to them — for probably the most half apart from [Kamaru] Usman — I’ve been in a position to put a whole lot of guys away that he fought and went to a choice with. The best way he takes photographs, the way in which I take photographs, he’s simply fragile in comparison with me. Get in that cage and I’ll show it. I’ll greater than show how fragile he’s in comparison with me.”
