MANCHESTER, England – Belal Muhammad desires to beat Leon Edwards in convincing and dominant style.
Muhammad (23-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC) challenges welterweight champion Edwards (22-3 MMA, 14-2 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC 304 (pay-per-view, ESPN2, ESPN+) headliner at Co-op Reside in Manchester, England.
After amassing a 10-fight unbeaten streak, Muhammad will each lastly get a title shot, in addition to an opportunity to run issues again with Edwards. He desires to erase any doubt from their no contest in 2021.
“I need to torture him,” Muhammad advised reporters, together with MMA Junkie, on the UFC 304 media day. “I would like him to appreciate how a lot better I’m than him. While you go on the market and get a end, persons are like, ‘Oh, you bought fortunate. It occurred due to that.’
“I (need to) go on the market and dominate him and beat him in all elements of MMA – wrestling, grappling, hanging, jiu-jitsu, get him to the purpose of creating him need to stop. I need to torture him. I would like him to the purpose of his coaches and his coaches don’t have anything to say and so they stroll away as a result of they’re embarrassed.”
Muhammad went so far as saying he hates Edwards and defined why this rematch is so private for him.
“It’s very private as a result of while you have a look at his path to the title and the best way he did it, it’s similar to mine,” Muhammad mentioned. “He needed to go the lengthy highway. No one was respecting him, no one gave him a shot, and I took a battle on quick discover in opposition to him and he dedicated the foul, he injured me, and the battle received stopped due to that. On my finish, it was my first primary occasion. This was presupposed to be my spot, my time to shine, and it was taken from me by him, and he wouldn’t give me one other shot after which he tried to play it off like, ‘I might have received anyway.’ While you put that narrative on the market, followers are like, ‘He’s most likely proper.’
“So from there on out, I simply had that behind my thoughts – I had that dangerous style behind my head this complete time that I need to see what would have occurred. Then I’m dominating all these guys and so they’re nonetheless disrespecting my streak – him, his coach, his crew, they’re nonetheless saying he’s not subsequent. We’d like someone else. So the disrespect he had, he felt it, and he began giving it to me. In order that’s what pissed me off. That’s what’s pushing me to hate the man. That’s what’s making me excited to make him bleed, make him break.”
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