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Jorge Masvidal echoes call for grudge fight with Leon Edwards in UFC return: ‘Let’s throw down like men’

Gearing up for a potential return to the UFC this year, Jorge Masvidal believes it’s now time to finally settle his long-standing grudge with former undisputed welterweight kingpin, Leon Edwards upon his comeback to the Octagon.

Masvidal, a former two-time title challenger himself in the weight class, departed the promotion back in 2023, off the back of four successive losses.

Jorge Masvidal plots March return to UFC in Miami: 'I'm going to f**k somebody up'
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Dropping his most recent defeat to perennial challenger, Gilbert Burns in his native Miami, inaugural symbolic BMF champion, Masvidal made a brief professional boxing outing last summer, facing another familiar foe.