UFC welterweight Jorge Masvidal has a message for his old rival, the freshly crowned 170-pound champion, Leon Edwards. Edwards earned the welterweight strap at UFC 278 with a thunderous knockout victory over Kamaru Usman. Although an immediate rematch with “The Nigerian Nightmare” seems most probably as Edwards’ first title defense, Jorge Masvidal wants to settle some beef with the champ, and urged Edwards to “step up to the f****** plate”.
““Leon, f****** step up to the plate, bro. You begged and cried, and did all of this bulls*** before when I was fighting for the title — now you’ve got the belt, let’s go. I never dodged this f*** because when I wasn’t fighting Leon, I was fighting the guy who had the belt. After that, I fought the guy who was [ranked] No. 1.
Masivdal Demands Edwards “Step Up to the F****** Plate”
So if Leon wants it, I’m here, but he’d rather be drinking tea, eating fish and chips and s***, I don’t know.” Edwards and Masvidal infamously clashed backstage at UFC London a few years back, with Masvidal hitting Edwards.
“Gamebred” later dubbed the incident “three piece and a soda”, but the two have yet to face one another in competition. Masvidal is currently riding a three-fight losing streak, including two losses to Kamaru Usman. Leon Edwards wasted no time on Twitter asking Masvidal to “get on your knees and beg”.
Masvidal, predictably, was not happy. “I don’t take nothing to heart. I definitely think I deserve it, and just from the money side of it, we definitely deserve it. From the fan side of it, we definitely deserve it. Who doesn’t want to see me fight Leon?
They might say I don’t deserve it, but they would still raise their hands in the dark, in quiet, and say, ‘I want to see that fight. I’m actually going to pay my hard-earned money to see that fight,’ so I don’t agree with that.
[Dan Henderson] had beat [Michael] Bisping, and when Bisping was champion — and I think Hendo was similar to me, he wasn’t even in the top 10 at the time and they just dropped my ranking as well — they brought ‘Hendo’ in there, in England, gave [Bisping] a tough fight.
It ended up going five rounds, Bisping won the decision in England, but that had a story. And if that fight has a story, this one has a f****** movie between me and what’s his face, that f****** English f***.
Why not just give the fans what they want? If I didn’t deserve it, or fans didn’t want it, why is everyone just talking about this? They’re always talking about me against Leon in England.”
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