Ahead of his own comeback at UFC 304 this weekend in another championship setting, Leon Edwards who prove too much of a task to overthrow by Islam Makhachev in a long-mooted super fight, according to the Birmingham star’s head coach.
Edwards, the current undisputed welterweight champion, returns to action this weekend in the main event of the promotion’s return to Manchester, taking on surging former-foe, Belal Muhammad in the pair’s title fight rematch.
First sharing the Octagon back in 2020, Edwards would first to a second round official ‘No Contest’ against the Illinois native in the pair’s matchup – before landing an inadvertent eye poke, rendering the former unable to continue.