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Jorge Masvidal says he would have ‘jumped all over’ Leon Edwards if he was Nate Diaz

Jorge Masvidal would have ‘jumped all over’ Leon Edwards in the fifth round of his welterweight bout with Nate Diaz at UFC 263, claiming the latter lacked a sense of urgency after hurting (and almost finishing) ‘Rocky’ in the final round of the fight.

“Those milliseconds in that particular incident where Leon was at, that’s like a lifetime, I’m not even exaggerating,” Masvidal, who holds a TKO win over Diaz, said of the matchup on a recent episode of the How U Livin J Piven podcast (h/t Harvey Leonard of MMA News). “Any one more shot might be the end of him for a long time.