More than 600 days sit between Leon Edwards’s last fight -- a unanimous decision win over Rafael Dos Anjos -- and when he’ll step foot in the Octagon again.
It's a layoff that obviously wasn’t planned, and one that’s arguably been more frustrating than one spent recovering from injury, but either way, the key to Edwards’s success in navigating this incalculable season of his career has been patience.
Then, like so many around the world, Edwards’s life was placed on hold for a few weeks. Then a few months. Then an entire year.