Christian Petersen
Nate Diaz had barely appropriate advice for Leon Edwards after the latter beat him by unanimous decision at UFC 263 on Saturday night.
“Nate told me after the battle, ‘Create now no longer let these motherf–kers clarify you ain’t s–t title your attach or they’ll title it for you’ and I felt that,” Edwards tweeted Monday.
Edwards largely controlled the battle throughout the first four rounds, battering Diaz and simply a hit on the playing cards. But he let his guard down most effective satisfactory within the fifth spherical to win smashed by a Diaz left that had him swaying, a lapse in concentration he told journalists he would learn from after the battle:
“I became rocked. I wasn’t rocked [enough] to gallop the full kind down to my knees and win ground and pounded out but I felt that. I didn’t know what he hit me with except after the battle. It became a smooth shot. Admire I said, I bought complacent. I believed there’s most effective a minute and a half of left, let’s just gallop with the gallop with the gallop of the battle and I paid the attach. That can also very well be a lesson. I’m soundless finding out. I’m 29 years outdated and I’m soundless rising.”
Irrespective of that shaky construct, Edwards continues to ticket. He hasn’t lost since 2015, when Kamaru Usman beat him by unanimous decision. Since then, he has nine wins out of 10 fights with one no-contest after he by accident poked Belal Muhammad within the look in March.
As for Diaz, he did no longer just hang issues to sing after the battle. Edwards told journalists his opponent became speaking smack your total match too, even because the Brit became getting the upper of him:
“I converse Nate’s Nate, that is what I love about him. He is who he is, he’ll now no longer swap for no one and specifically speaking s–t. Even when I became hitting him, I became getting him with some appropriate pictures and [he said], ‘What are you doing? You ain’t doing nothing!’ I’m love, ‘Bro, I’m beating you up here.’ It is what it’s far.
“Lawful battle, I loved it. Or now no longer it has been a prolonged, prolonged two years and I became gay to advance attend attend and compete in opposition to a man love Nate. I respect him, specifically after that battle. Incandescent how much he can eradicate and again going ahead and again speaking s–t.”
Beating a fighter love Diaz became crucial for Edwards. It’ll start the door for him to win more excessive-profile fights and seemingly at final a title shot.
