No training! No MMA? What does Leon Edwards do on his day off? Elz The Witch took the UFC welterweight champ out for a day …
I feel like he’s talked he talked a lot you know what I mean so he has he has to back it up and that’s that’s my my focus and I’m going in for the Finish what’s up it’s ell here and today I’m meeting UFC welterweight champion Leon Rocky Edwards and he’s going to show me what he likes to get up to on his day off so let’s go on today’s episode there’s no days off for Leon as he travels down to London for press prior to his fight at 304 so we head clo shopping to talk about his love for fashion and his upcoming fight with Al Muhammad before heading to a Jamaican spot to get him fueled up for the day and his plans Beyond UFC all that and more on today’s episode of UFC’s day off so Leon it’s a day off but it’s actually not a day off for you because you’ve got press all day all day but on a typical day off what does it look like for you so normally my day off is like a Sunday I go shopping got a little boy as well so I trim a little my son and stuff like that really just going out um trying to enjoy much as I can that one day so you like your stule yeah wearing obviously in a very nice clo shop talk to me about your style I feel like for me I love wearing I don’t know everything black that black with different color patterns on it um oversiz are like oversiz I I really follow fashion because go with whatever I feel for go to shoping that’s sick I get it you know I mean even like season I grab it anyway I like like the way look look of it so do you think then in your class in the UFC your your hair in feel like all like dress weird the Americans just just very different so I feel like definitely 100% okay what about number two then if you’re taking the top spot who will we put in here uh Conor I think Conor dress dresses but he’s like more suits and stuff there’s a few people are just decent but most of the times kind of like hit ailly American looking [Music] stuff so talking of style we’re going to play a quick game we’re going to rate the other fighters in your weight class dress set dress scents the first one is a now I love Le print so I wouldn’t wear it um what fair play if you could rate it out of 10 what are you saying it’s a lot going on I say about five probably five yeah it’s a lot that’s a nine for me is it I love leopard print you got to be confident to wear that for me I give five I never wear it so okay the next one is your upcoming opponent bam one no why are we giving this one the suit you just look at it’s all baggy just it doesn’t match the blade just what lot going on that’s what I’m talking about the way to dress it’s like yeah do you think they have stylists or they just pick this out he picked himself he looks like definitely bang off together the next one is MVP Michael Venom page uh it’s all right see I’ll probably go yeah eight an eight yeah 7 eight okay are we but what what’s the Benchmark are you 10 I’m 10 yeah I didn’t so MVP is eight eight I got eight so we have shave cat nice suit first suit you probably give yeah same seven seven or right yeah seven didn’t that much fashion goes into like a normal suit like that it’s not it safe yeah it’s not like I want say it’s taor either just like a normal suit I’ll say okay so next one we have Conor McGregor you did say you like his style yeah yeah I’ll give them they’re similar to me oh 10 that’s a 10 yeah yeah okay for press conference that’s all right yeah day day today enough but yeah nice okay and last but not least one is the last one one again H be comington what yeah at a press conference he was fighting me then um I don’t know what he’s meant to be he meant to be like an oldtime american guy and hat as well yeah one zero if you could give him zero but so he’d be below below yeah 100% wait so this was your press conference M yeah I think that was um in December when I fought him in December okay yeah you can’t a man like that can’t beat me you can’t dress like that and come out and win the fight you know mean I seen that for you’re already a loss new outfit sorted it was time to cut to the Chase and get Leon Sports on his title defense against old foe balal Muhammad right let’s get down to the serious stuff 304 yeah Manchester July alal Muhammad what what emotions are you feeling currently running up to that um excited excited it’s the rematch we before before two years ago um ending in ioke so I feel just unfinished business so I go out there focused and get the job done so you’ll be fighting on home soil do you think that gives you an advantage at all um I believe so um I’ve never lost a fight in the UK and I enjoy um my family my friends and my family being there and just drawing the energy to go out there and compete and even though some Fighters don’t like it they prefer like fighting away and not having as much friends and family there I’ve seen an interview though where balow said that he reckons he’ll have more fans in the arena than you what you say to that I think he’s deluded you know I think everyone everyone on social media knows uh the guy is deluded and well like I said come it going be in for shock when it comes to to the UK and just see the fans reaction and how much how much they going to boo him and like go against him know so I’m excited for itman said the same thing when Forman at O2 he when I come over there all the fans going to couldn’t be on my side and it couldn’t get a word out cu like no one cares you know I mean oh God like I said the guy the way he talks like the first fight didn’t happen it’s like weird you he’s like real like the first fight Bing you all the way through until until the incident to the I poke happened I don’t get where he’s getting this Confidence from and this this talk has got you know what is your strategy going up against him then because obviously as you said it’s been two years since you fought he might have improved got more confident changed his fight Styles he has improved but so have I you know and um I feel like for me my aim is to go out and finish for this fight you know I feel like he’s talked he talked a lot of you know me so he he has to back it up and hoping that he can what whatever it says make sure he can back it up you know that’s that’s my my focus and I’m going in for the Finish definitely he actually said in one of them that if if he wins right hypothetically speaking if he wins he thinks he’s had the toughest route get the title um that’s defo not correct you know um I feel like his his last win I think it was Gilbert I think um Gilbert was injured in the fight you got the win fair play he beat Vincent luk someone I beat years ago he beat him Ed to beat Wonder Boy Wonder Boy Is 40 years old you know what I mean so I feel like if judging all these all these guys that his fought to me is is in for World shocked you know I mean I’m I’m too different animals compared to a 40y old 42y old man and I’m 32 years old you mean going into my Primal career my confidence and being the p number one guy in the world Kamar Wiman I lost a fight in eight years um he’s a lot going against him you know my confidence and my my belief in myself on my on my team and what I can do is is like cemented in my soul you know what I mean so I feel it’s going to be a lot to have someone like bow go out there and beat me it talks a good game he he says what he says and makes memes and all that when it comes down to the actual skill for skill I’m the better man and that’s just what it is nice well we’ve seen bow post a lot of memes as well online he’s quite active online doing a lot of podcasts memes you probably seen this before don’t you can guess what it is who rocks the throw better I’ve seen that one me obviously well that’s funny you did that b it was on his page it’s like a promo yes giving retro very retro Vibes um but yeah definely me a funny looking man anyway but oh God that we gave him one out of 10 for style earlier we give one out of 10 for that keep for all the way through his performance his his style the way he fights everything is one out of 10 shopping done I wanted to take Leon to Joy’s a local Jamaican restaurant for some home cooking to get him fueled up for the day ahead and to delve deeper into him as a person and his plans Beyond UFC [Music] oh my God that looks nice so part two of the day off technically a day off technically it’s not you grew up in Jamaica till you were 10 right yeahor we’ve come to Joy’s it’s a Caribbean Jamaican restaurant in Soho yeah and we are trying well I’ve never tried curried goat before you need to try it banging one of my favorites so one of your yeah need to try it definitely so you’ve actually got a restaurant with your mom right let me try it that’s good so yeah from kid my mom always said that she went to the restaurant you know so like it I love it this why I’m going in again yeah so yeah she’s she’s there now enjoying it if that was to order one thing from there what would it be cured goat the goat is good mhm J chicken as well you like J chicken m good oxtail iin sfish anything yeah all of it this is what I was talking about the crispy um Mac and chees crispy mac and cheese falling apart it’s so good try it this I think we should try it I just love the top part it’s good it’s good very good so how do you find running a business then took a little while to like grow um obviously helped like me being a Sunday like promoting it and and people come up and show up to the shop but um yeah she she’s enjoying it and it’s like her F now passion you know so I’m happy to be able to give her that to yeah just bring her dreams to reality nice so when you’re fighting obviously you’re representing the UK home soil but you’re representing Jamaica as well because as you said you were there till you were 10 you have a lot of fans out in Jamaica yeah 100% um I got a lot of fans there lo of family still there my n still is in Jamaica my aun and cousins and um I got charity as well I’ve started um to help um give them back to the single parents in Jamaica like single moms and stuff like that so it’s a great passion of mine to go back hopefully I’m going back for my birthday in August oh that would be yeah yeah so I’m looking forward to I’ve haven’t been back now before covid so I’m looking forward to getting back out there and fight as well after fight as well cele I can eat all the Jamaican food I want Jamaica patties is is banging I can’t wait so what other goals and aspirations do you have it can be within fighting outside of fighting I feel like I love to open a a mixed martial art facility with Bingham to um give back to the youth that like going down the wrong path like hours you know for for a got into mix martial arts and so that’s my next plan within the next year or two um to open up um big gym with Bing to try uh give back all St want to invest wisely I don’t one one his athletes that go broke after so long you know so yeah I got a lot of projects I’m working right now my team and um we we set me up good that I can then achieve to be able to do whatever I want um with my time when I’m retired you know yeah kick back and relax yeah that’s my plan my son keeps saying to me Dad you need to retire at 35 I like bro the last 3 years 3 years left like there’s like a thing in MMA it’s after like 35 you can’t nobody wins about after 35 okay certain weight that’s to say but I’ve got about so all I is keep it just retain it5 getting out so uh my plan is retire at 37 okay first is 37 um by time then I’ll be set up for everyone do doing the future you know yeah does your son fight at all um no but he he trains it yeah um we’ve been doing Jiu-Jitsu um for about 3 years um does wrestling as well boxing so it does it not so by the time you by the time you retire yeah yeah he might be in age where I don’t think I don’t think I want him to compete you know I don’t think I’ll push him into like competing if it comes to me like that and he’s good yeah so looking past the fight then obviously at the moment Bow’s kind of tunnel vision but after that what is your end goal if you have one um within the sport um I feel like right now my goal is to be go on one of the best of all time um I think what got me to be become a world champion was it was the aim of having the belt inside that that’s my goal to like go towards and have to like refocus myself to see okay what’s what’s now is get me up in the morning to go out and train and I start I started quite late as well like 17 I started makx martial arts so it’s quite late I’m 32 now and but yeah I that’s my my next goal I feel do you think that and I know this from talking to sort of other athletes and just High Achievers I guess yeah do you think that it’s possible to ever be content with what you’ve achieved or do you always want to achieve more um I think it’s difficult I think to say that the where you get for achieving your goal is is is the next goal you know I feel like that’s that’s true like once you get there okay okay what’s now you know what I mean like what’s the next driv Force for succeed and um so I feel like it’s you have to be happy with yourself also it’s like you can’t keep chasing but also you got you want to be great at anything in life there’s a lot of sacrifice and and and the chase is what keeps it motivated you know I feel like pressure from other people too because you do interviews a lot yeah the question everyone asks so what’s next even on the fight night when you win mhm you’re going to be asked in the press conference so what’s next who you fighting next what next straight away um that’s the that’s the race that’s the r race that you in it um to constantly to be at top of the mountain and to stay there for I have long pled to stay there for that’s the that’s what keeps it going that’s what’s next okay after this fight after bow oh I got someone else he’s going to be the next best person then after him someone else there’s always like someone else someone else until I’m ready to walk away from the game or um right now I don’t feel like come at that point I feel there’s a lot more I want to prove and a lot more I want to achieve within the sport and um so yeah that’s my my goal who do you think would be next then after balow maybe a Conor I think I’ve say before that’ be good I feel like um that in New York in November would perfect mhm yeah that would be a great fight as well New York is Connor yeah yeah MSG star Arena um so yeah it’ be good it be good that’s my my plan my plan is to go out there check out below and let’s see what we go from there well this has been great love the food shopping as well it’s been really interesting getting to know sort of what your I’m going to say day off cuz we’re not really on a day off you’ve got to go do some press now but it’s been super interesting thank you forat to me showing me your life thanks for having me it was good had fun and I have to see you in in July July 27th you come down I’m coming down and I’m going to be in a full LEP print suit I’ll see you there want you take out meow there you have it that was Leon Edwards day off I’ve been ‘s and I’ll see you next time