Leon Edwards Biography | Leon Edwards

Leon Edwards is an English mixed martial artist currently competing as a Welterweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor since 2011, he has formerly competed for BAMMA where he was Welterweight Champion. As of March 4, 2019, he is #10 UFC welterweight rankings

Leon Edwards Age

Leon is 27 years old as of 2018. He was born on 25 August 1991, in Kingston, Jamaica

Leon Edwards Personal life

He grew up in Birmingham, England but is originally from Kingston, Jamaica. He started training Mixed martial arts when he was 17. His nickname was given to him by his friends in school. His brother Fabian is also an MMA fighter.

Leon Edwards Family

There are no details about his family

Leon Edwards Height

He has a height of 1.88 meters tall

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Leon Edwards Brother

His brother name is Fabian Edwards
Middleweight prospect Fabian Edwards has aspirations of joining his brother, Leon Edwards, under the UFC banner. And if things go according to plan, he said it could happen in the next 12 months.

“That’s the dream, and it’s not a dream that we don’t think can happen – it’s a dream we think will happen,” Edwards told MMAjunkie. “It could happen at the end of this year or beginning of next year. It’s a dream that will come true in the near future. So we’re just going to keep chipping away.”

There are big things going on with the Edwards brothers. Leon, 26, competes against Peter Sobotta on Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 127 card in London, while Fabian, 24, is coming off one of the most impressive wins of his young career at BAMMA 34 earlier this month.

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Edwards made his promotional debut against Cláudio Silva on 8 November 2014 at UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Saint Preux. Silva defeated Edwards via split decision.

He faced veteran Seth Baczynski on 11 April 2015 at UFC Fight Night 64. Edwards knocked out Seth Baczynski in 8 seconds with a straight left hand after timing a kick. The result also earned Edwards a Performance of the Night bonus.

He faced Pawel Pawlak on 18 July 2015 at UFC Fight Night 72. He won the fight via unanimous decision.

Edwards next faced Kamaru Usman on 19 December 2015 at UFC on Fox 17. He lost the fight by unanimous decision.

He faced Dominic Waters on 8 May 2016 at UFC Fight Night 87. He won the fight via unanimous decision.

He next faced Albert Tumenov on 8 October 2016 at UFC 204. He won the fight via submission in the third round.

He faced Vicente Luque on 18 March 2017 at UFC Fight Night 107. He won the fight by unanimous decision.

Edwards faced Bryan Barberena on 2 September 2017 at UFC Fight Night 115. He won the fight by unanimous decision.

He faced Peter Sobotta on 17 March 2018 at UFC Fight Night 127. He won the fight via TKO at 4:59 in the third round.

Edwards faced Donald Cerrone on 23 June 2018 at UFC Fight Night 132. He won the fight via unanimous decision.

He faced Gunnar Nelson on 16 March 2019 at UFC Fight Night 147. He won by split decision.

Leon Edwards Next Fight

There are no details about his next fight, it is not yet revealed.

Leon Edwards Net Worth

He has a net worth of $580,000

Leon Edwards Sherdog

Sherdog is an American website devoted to the sport of mixed martial arts. The site is a member of the Crave Online network and provides MMA related content for ESPN.

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Leon Edwards Championships and achievements

Mixed martial arts

• Ultimate Fighting Championship
  • Performance of the Night (One Time) vs. Seth Baczynski
  • Second fastest knockout in welterweight history (0:08 of 1st round)
  • Tied latest finish in a 3-round fight (4:59 of the 3rd round)
• BAMMA
  • BAMMA RDX Welterweight Championship (One time)
  • One Successful Title Defense

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Leon Edwards Highlights

The UFC London co-main event wrapped up with Leon Edwards picking up a split decision over Gunnar Nelson.

Edwards flipped the script on his opponent in the opening round, racking up all sorts of control time against the proven grappler. Come round-two, Edwards came up with a massive elbow from the clinch that sent Nelson crashing to the canvas. A brutal barrage of ground strikes landed just before the round ended. Nelson went for it in round three, finding the takedown and taking full mount. From there, he was able to land some ground strikes of his own but was never able to really posture up to inflict some fight-ending damage.

Leon Edwards Cowboy | Leon Edwards Cowboy Cerrone

Leon Edwards spoiled Donald Cerrone’s chance at UFC history today when he defeated “Cowboy” in UFC Fight Night 132’s main event.

Edwards (16-3 MMA, 8-2 UFC) pushed his winning streak to six fights in the welterweight division when he beat Cerrone (33-11 MMA, 20-8 UFC) by unanimous decision in the UFC Fight Pass-streamed headliner at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.

Cerrone could’ve been the outright holder of most career UFC wins if he had been victorious.

Check below for the top Twitter reactions to Edwards’ victory over Cerrone at UFC Fight Night 132.

Leon Edwards News

Dana White speaks out on Jorge Masvidal’s backstage brawl with Leon Edwards at UFC London

Adopted:https://metro.co.uk
Published:17 Mar 2019

Masvidal was conducting an interview with ESPN just minutes after his knockout victory over Darren Till when British welterweight Edwards interrupted and told him to ‘shut up’ for refusing to commit to a July fight date. The American approached Edwards before the pair traded blows and had to be separated by members of security. It’s understood police were later sent to the fighters’ hotels to further investigate the violent altercation. Edwards, who earlier beat Gunnar Nelson in convincing fashion in front of a sold-out O2 Arena, sustained a cut during the scuffle with Masvidal and UFC president White has reacted to the incident. He said: ‘I can’t even believe that this happened. ‘We [the UFC] need to do a much better job of making sure this s*** doesn’t happen at any of our events.’

Masvidal blamed ‘loser’ Edwards for the backstage brawl and claimed that his rival’s pals tried to sucker punch him following the altercation. ‘So I’m doing my interview, and this hooligan comes by saying some stuff,’ Masvidal explained. ‘[He says] “July, you’ll get your ass kicked in July.” And I go ‘Maybe bro, cause whatever, maybe I want to kick your ass in April. Maybe I don’t want to wait till July. Maybe I don’t even want to fight you cause you’re not worth the training camp. I’ll fight you here, you’re a scrub. ‘So I tell him “Just say it to my face like a man. You’re saying it walking away. We’re both men.” As I walk up to him, I’ve got my hands behind my back to signal I’m not coming here for problems. But he put his hands up like this [raises fists]. ‘It’s on video, and he walks towards me. Well, where I’m from, if you do that, you’re going to punch me in the face. That’s not going to happen. ‘You’re a JV beta. You are what you are a bro, you’re just a loser in life. You’re not going to get a hit off on me. So I did the three-piece with the soda, and then just glided out of there. ‘Then some of his friends tried to sucker punch me… those guys did a big mistake.’