Rewatch the first full fight between welterweight champion, Leon Edwards and Belal Muhammad ahead of their rematch in the …
yeah but listen you’re going to fight that’s all well and good thank you Bal for taking the fight now I’m going to kick your ass fight we are underway Edwards in the red minus 270 as a sizable favorite balam muhamed in the green plus 220 is the underdog see this is interesting already sure we’re only 10 seconds in but Bal is normally the one that presses y always going forward I was wondering about whether or not if he was going to try to get the timing of Edwards before he starts trying to press now he will eventually he will try to go forward but Point Leon’s putting them right on his heels one thing we have to note is the straight shots of Leon versus the hooks that Bal throws one thing that might confuse Leon a little bit though is Bal he faints he faints like he’s going to shoot for a take down then when he comes down he comes to the body or he comes over the top with a right hook and there’s always two three four even five punches come after them B typically is a very very busy fighter Muhammad as you guys say usually likes to use the pace to his Advantage nice onew from Edwards he uses his cardio as a weapon but right there he just got hit with a big one two Edward what a journey back to the Octagon for Leon Edwards beautiful knee like look at the position by Edwards right away Jam the knee right in the middle try to break the posture of balah Muhammad balal does a great job of spinning him throws an elbow over the top really nice elbow on the break off for Bal skimm the skull of Edwards there and that was surprising that that was interesting for Leon to do that to mix things up to hey guess what take Downs go both ways of course wasn’t successful though but he keeps Bal guessing with that Leon has found some success with some counter striking through the early going of note for balal muhammd his head coach and Mentor from when he was a high school wrestler Lewis Taylor who ultimately got him into fighting is not in his Corner tonight unable to do so he’s been in Las Vegas oh kick legs and now he’s going in oh my goodness left hook he’s blocking though he defended those shots but that head kick wobbled him big that was a nasty head kick by Leon Edwards no wind up I don’t think mohammad’s legs are all there quite yet not yet but he’s got to be careful not to take anything clean right as if he start to take anything clean after getting rocked like that it’s over yeah interesting strategy again to go for the taked down when he was so hurt because this is this is really good for balal gives him a chance to get his faculty back you know to to you know just blow off this the cwe so I’m not Shock cuz he was H he was well I was just one of those situations Mike where it was like earlier we talked about Courtney Casey kind of going into range because she was overextended on her strikes Leon did that that wasn’t necessarily a takedown attempt but he was trying to charge into so fast that he ended up closer than he needed to be and now finds himself stuck with Bal muhamed there’s a cut on the right side of the head of Bal muhamed that you see there yeah that’ll be the shin bone under two minutes to go round one that’s what Bal needs to do he needs more forward pressure of course easiest said than done against someone like Leon but backing up like this you know he’s going to have problems bow said this week he said when you put Leon on your back on his back foot he falls he doesn’t do too well I’m not sure if I agree with that but it’s certainly better than letting Leon do the advancing kick Leon is constantly switching stances man eye poke here in time called by Herb Dean immediately come here come here come here watch your fingers okay keep doing this is fine to keep him off his face let’s fight back underway that’s what Bal has to do he has to be going forward but he’s got to move his head be careful as he enters good there you go that’s all you got to do fight way out trying to jab his way back to Center quick onew from Rocky we’ve seen a difference in power as well when Leon connects it’s doing significant damage when Bal connects with respect Leon’s taking them a lot better I mean Edwards is just so relaxed in there he’s not loading up everything comes from where it needs to be and he lands and he’s so quick he sees everything yeah he he fights with zero emotion yeah you know it’s just it’s a job in there heavy exchange high impact on each side as the final seconds of round one tick away back ready for round two balal Muhammad took some power shots in the first round still going Mohamad was excited to have 25 minutes test himself prove that he belongs in these big spots against the sports best oh oh another poke oh it was a poke in the eye wasn’t a low blow as he landed the body kick over there over there you got to see the replay because last time no yes oh my God this looks like a bad one oh my goodness hold on oh my goodness dear oh man oh oh my goodness I got a bad feeling this does not sound good I need to relax relax breathe and relax and let the doctor take a look okay okay yeah there okay calm down for a second take a look relax breathe okay hold on hold on blah blah relax and breathe he needs the doctor needs to take a look at it can you can you open your eyes best you can okay you see double I can’t see anything can’t see anything wait stop stop what the M stop stop stop herban officially W talk to him just for now over there he waved his arms over his head I saw that right right oh my goodness and the doctors will come in so oh it’s all right underneath too oh come on I mean listen there’s no faking that you can see the pain and the aony yes listen let me tell you you know come on the pain is like nothing else this is the most unfortunate thing for two guys oh my goodness it was a poke it was definitely a poke and it was an unintentional unintentional unintentional but worst case scenario for a guy in below Muhammad who’s in this spot that he’s been looking for for so many years and for Leon Edwards been away for so long and then this happens ladies and gentlemen the end comes officially 18 seconds of round number two due to an accidental eye poke to Muhammad he cannot continue therefore this Main Event has been declared a no decision so a no contest it’s not what we all wanted I mean that is I mean to say that’s a shame is is beyond words certainly for Leon after all that work all that time away for Bal Muhammad of course he had a massive opportunity as well I mean it is just an absolute shame purely unintentional and unfortunately it’s just the way it happens sometimes