Should Kamaru Usman Get an Immediate Rematch with Leon Edwards?
If you were not keeping up with UFC 278, man do I feel bad for you. If you haven’t heard already, Leon Edwards and Kamaru Usman went at it this past Saturday with the welterweight championship belt on the line. With the whole world and even our UFC team at Vendetta Sports Media thinking Usman would surely take the victory, Edwards came out and surprised us all. Do not get my words twisted, I like Edwards. If he had not been facing Usman and instead someone else, I would’ve surely placed my bet on him. But this was clearly not the case, and Edwards can now celebrate being the welterweight champion of the world.
This leads me to my next thought, what does Kamaru Usman do next? There have been talks leading up to this fight that Usman may jump up, skip middleweight, and move into the light heavyweight division to fight the one and only, Jon “Bones” Jones. Though I do not particularly like this matchup, I can see why the UFC would approve it.
But I need an Edwards and Usman trilogy. Trilogies haven’t disappointed in the past and this being a title fight will simply build the hype itself. A trilogy, in which both fighters put everything on the line, for the welterweight championship belt. There’s no better option than that for both fighters. Leon Edwards proves anything is possible, and Kamaru — the dominant fighter majority of the fight — can learn from little mistakes and achieve his belt back.
That fight blows my mind even now just thinking about it. Edwards was losing the fight on the scorecards 1-3. The first round was his only round won and he looked gassed out from 2-4. Then evidently, he realized the gravity of his current situation — it was all or nothing — and that he wouldn’t get another title shot, especially not with Kamaru Usman as champion. So, he risked it all with a left jab followed by a head kick from his left leg, and it paid off, as he knocked Usman out COLD.
Congratulations to the man Leon Edwards, and I will be hoping to see a trilogy between the pair of living legends.
