UFC Champ Leon Edwards Answers Your Questions | Actually Me

what's up GQ is Leon Edward there and today I'm going to Undercover on the internet you may not believe it but it's actually me [Music] let's check Twitter [Music] Edwards predicts he and his brother Edwards will become champion in 2023 okay but who would win in the fight between them I'll say me I'm the big brother so I feel like I brought him into the game so I could also take him out if I'm a kid with all for like fought together you know so I don't like look at him that way it's more just about him improving and getting better and also achieving his dreams you know replied so yesterday how does this make sense Mia Edwards took out Usman yeah he's below him I don't know how it makes sense even to me you know like how do you go from knocking someone out cold and then him still being above you in the powerful Prime rankings but all that matters is that I can't knock out it's on TV and everyone can see it you know so we all know he's number one Leon Edwards might have the greatest entrance song in the UFC that's like that next to that so I came out to last time you know I knew that kind of vibe for me to go out there and perform and to do more things so shout out to Dexter dapson to the Jamaican culture kumarisman may have lost to Lee Edwards but he still think he is the better fighter like you can feel we want to think the proof is this in the pudding and like I said I'm the champ and that's it it keeps going around saying we all know the Champions yeah the guy that knocked you out that's who The champ is you know on Reddit how should I train to have a physique like later what do you think is workout routine and diet or like and how can I have it I would do Extreme Conditioning three times a week in training camp I'm also doing wrestling Boxing kickboxing or something there's a lot of work to be done a diet routine is just like fish chicken rice loads of veg landed with This Man trilogy on my terms has to happen in the UK Leon deserved to have a fight in his country because he earned it can anyone from the UK tell us famous big Leones now and it's party levels popular in the UK yeah for sure I'm the second UFC champion in history of the UK now so for me to go back home now and sell our Stadium show it benefits to everybody you know a lot of guys coming up under me I want to use my platform to put more light on them you know because get all the builds a sport all right let's see some YouTube comments the fact that his name is Rocky and how the film is about a man coming from nothing training hard being downs and pulling it out spectacular and it's actually so poetic Beautiful Life poetry the name Rocky actually had it when I was in school you know like I wasn't going to always fights and I said all my friends call me Rocky and then now we're going to MMA and it's made like perfect sense you know like there's God's will for it to play I played a lot you know for sure next I doubt Leon was even thinking or throwing out the iconic post for interview he was just exhilarated overcome and with emotions but also vulnerable and it just made everything he said marble Hills [ __ ] facts like everything that I went through for the last two years and ordered out all just came out at that moment Look at me now like you also couldn't do it and just look I did it you know and like even like now we've been like Goosebumps it's like saying it but glad Leon is finally getting all the credit that you deserve a lot of people wrote him off but a lot of us knew that he was going to be Champion one day hopefully he can avenge them so high punches somebody gave him that's the fact that right now it'll be hard to make because he's on like a free fight losing streak in my life my career is doing this and his career is doing not so for it to make sense it'd be hard you know but there's the fact that it's gonna happen either on the street sorry not to Gonna Know perfectly honest in octagon to get paid but if not I'll see him that's as far as gonna happen for sure Wikipedia on December the 1st it was officially tested positive for covid-19 and allegedly lost 12 pounds due to the severity of the case yeah for sure like was matched up and I started feeling like really weak in Camp you know and then one night it just like hit me and I couldn't eat I've lost my taste so I lost about five six kgs obviously just like wait for your fight but you also have to lose the weight healthily so yeah I had to like reschedule that fight it was a big on his professional career in 2010 making his debut as an amateur in Bushido challenge to a new dawn and I fought car booth that was my first professional fight it was like a local show in the UK I mean to go through to own your skills basically and to run nothing big it's a little warehouse and at this point you fight for free right you could like you're selling tickets to make money but yeah a good little show that was around it's not obviously it's around normal [Music] dream opponent Dead or Alive probably everyone I said Bruce Lee like any legends that I probably said mom really just so like how much I look up to as an inspiration as Ireland how old is kick him in the head not looking past me but I feel like he wasn't as focused as it should be but not undefeated for eight years never been taken down that comes with a little bit of arrogance you know I think before that he couldn't be beaten and my sole objective was a guy didn't win the fight you know I had no other distractions because like in fights you can pick up like little signs on that you can use and plus one of his things that he reacts big punches you know and we landed it perfectly to kick besides USC 278 Edwards versus lisman what is the best UFC fight of all time for me I probably say Kevin Velasquez due to Santos is it one or two when like you just battered him I thought one of the fights I watch because this is like the no quit Spirit you know just keep going keep going and that's one of the parts that I enjoy watching you know replied Instagram recently I don't know if y'all start this boat I just like to be flying I like to just nice I like to like do fly stuff you know so yeah for some reason the UFC fighters are all just just like like hillbillies are weird you know but that's just like my culture to represent what I am you know how does it feel bro her mom found from being Undisputed tramping off the world has it sunk in yet um now it has you know for the first month I like taking about everywhere and everywhere and now it's something that I've finally achieved this dream that I've been working for over 12 13 years you know food ups and downs I stay true to myself and dedicate my life too and I achieve it I think about represents all that you know represents your commitment to what your plan that you wanted to do when you're 16 years old do you think this was going to happen you must have predicted that I had shot but therefore did even before the fight when the first buff was announced in the fight like I did this I don't know why I did that like right just random yes you got a headshot dead out Tick Tock my favorite app this is the most legendary Corner ever this kind of relationship with coaches must be rare yeah 100 in like in the fight game you get a lot of yes men around you you don't tell you that you're doing wrong they won't upset you so I think my coach you know what to expect of me so you see that I'm not performing like Dave he's out with Father Figure to me you know so yeah just saying like what's up with it like fix up like go out there and be like you can't go through all that and come to this point and let this like just fall free hands you know just basically waking me up and yeah I took it on board and went out there and took him out bro what does this feel like for them I'm freaking out just watching at a time you can't remember nothing that's going on even after like the the head kick and this is like all the corner going crazy and my brother like hopping over the cage and jumping on me and like it's like a surreal moment you know like everyone keep asking me like put into words you achieving this goal that you set out to and become an ability world champion it's hard to wrap up into like a sentence with a white means to you you know and you know I did it from Birmingham and I make it a point to do from the UK because I want to know that by the ripple effect that gives me motivation and power to push through and get through the hard times that it's gonna happen one day and now and it's happened thank you for watching I'm signing off the internet

Channel: British GQ

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Length: 7min 36sec (456 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 13 2023