A welterweight title bout between champion Leon Edwards and second-ranked contender Belal Muhammad headlines the UFC 304 combat card on July 27. Will probably be Edwards’ third title protection and Muhammad’s first championship bout.
The occasion takes place at Co-op Reside in Manchester, England and who is healthier outfitted to provide a prediction on the combat’s end result than arguably the best welterweight of all time, Georges St-Pierre?
“I feel Leon is healthier. I feel Leon is champion for a cause as a result of he is higher,” St-Pierre mentioned on the Anik and Florian Podcast.
St-Pierre shortly identified that the very best fighter does not at all times win. “It isn’t at all times be finest fighter that wins the combat. It is the fighter that fights the very best the night time of the combat,” St-Pierre mentioned. “There is no such thing as a certainty on this sport. You may make the combat ten instances and ten totally different outcomes will occur.”
Edwards captured the 170-pound championship by knocking out Kamaru Usman at UFC 278 in August, 2022 by a head kick within the ultimate spherical. Within the rematch, Edwards defeated Usman by way of unanimous resolution. In December, Edwards defended the belt a second time in opposition to Colby Covington.
“Rush” admitted that he could also be a bit ‘biased’ as a result of he is aware of Edwards effectively and has frolicked with him from time to time. However his prediction wasn’t based mostly on who he personally likes extra.
“I do know Leon a bit bit and I am a bit bit biased as a result of I’ve frolicked with him a couple of instances, and he is an especially good individual, and I had a good time,” St-Pierre mentioned.
St-Pierre retired from combined martial arts after turning into a two-division champion by defeating Michael Bisping at UFC 217 in November 2017. A month later, St-Pierre introduced that he was vacating his UFC middleweight title after 34 days of holding the belt.
