Manchester – UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards had a laugh at the comparisons of Belal Muhammad to some UFC hall of famers as they get set to battle for the title at UFC 304 on Saturday night.
Popular thought is that Muhammad will come out and wrestle Edwards as the main part of his game plan. Edwards was unfazed by it.
“He might try to (wrestle me). I mean you won’t have much success in it. You ain’t a f*cking Khabib (Nurmagomedov) or like a GSP (Georges St. Pierre). Is Belal,” Edwards told reporters including Cageside Press on Wednesday.
“I think everyone knows his game plan would be to out and try wrestling, but even his wrestling ain’t all that really.”
Muhammad has been training with Nurmagomedov for this fight, and the former lightweight champ has supposedly come up with a game plan to beat Edwards. Muhammad believes he’ll do to Edwards what Nurmagomedov did to Conor McGregor at UFC 229.
“I ain’t Conor McGregor and he ain’t Khabib. You can’t use Khabib to credit yourself. You didn’t grow up with Khabib. You probably trained like for a little bit that’s about it,” Edwards said dismissing.
“I’ve trained with Khabib before. What does that mean? It means nothing. He’s using another man’s work to gain confidence off his work, but you didn’t put that kind of work in.”
Muhammad said in his media day scrum that he would dominate Edwards in five rounds saying he wants to ’50-42′ the champion.
“If it was me yeah I might go like mad deluded and sh*t and just talk random sh*t. Going to f*cking knock this guy out and like cut him up and like…you want violence in it. If I could dream any scenario in my brain I dream violence,” Edwards said laughing.
“I wouldn’t dream f*cking going to decision. It’s just weird like thoughts that’s going on.”
Watch the entire media day scrum with Leon Edwards above. He defends his UFC lightweight title against Belal Muhammad at the main event of UFC 304.
