Leon Edwards never bought into the narrative that Kamaru Usman was the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world heading into their welterweight title fight at UFC 278.
Having shared the cage with Usman in the past, Edwards knew ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’ wasn’t unstoppable and that the 35-year-old was possibly a victim of his own hype heading into the rematch.
Edwards reminded Usman and the rest of the world that ‘the belt belongs to nobody’ after flattening the latter with a head kick in the final minute of the fight to mark one of the greatest knockouts (and comebacks) in UFC history.