Kamaru Usman has lost his five-times-welterweight title to Leon Edwards by a last-minute knockout from Leon Edwards at UFC 278.
Edwards in the fifth round knocked Usman out with a high kick, preventing him from claiming the welterweight title the sixth time with a 3-1.
Meanwhile, while speaking with TMZ Sports, Usman claimed that was not his person and that he was merely after the finish. According to him, “No, that’s not who I am. When I fight, I got pedal to the metal and I don’t look at the clock. I’m a goer, when I hear the (horn) I still want to go, and when the ref says, ‘Break, go to your corners,’ I still want to go.
“That’s the way that I fight. I wanted the finish, it was just a beautiful technique. I could’ve taken him down, but I really wanted a finish and when I was setting up, and only God knows what I was setting up, I didn’t land it, (who knows) how much damage it could’ve done, but it was just a beautiful technique.”
He furthered, “He threw head kicks throughout the fight, I blocked them all,” Usman said. “That one was just money, I’m almost in awe on how good it was, but it happens. Champions fall, then they get back and show you why they’re champions.”
UFC President, Dana White, a couple of times has revealed the promotion’s plan of setting up a trilogy fight in London, come 2023.
“How do you not do a trilogy? Yeah, I want to do it in England. “I don’t think Leon would have to sit and wait anyway. He wouldn’t have to wait that long. He’d have to go back into camp and start training anyway,” he said.
White said, “First of all, we’d have to have the date. I think we’re booked up into January now. There will be no waiting for him, even if it’s a rematch.”
