The Breakfast Club - Leon Edward Talks UFC Life, Jake Paul, USMAN, Ian Garry, Abstaining From Sex Before fights + More

Episode Date: November 11, 2022

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because he's here for the week. The UFC welterweight champion, Mr. Leon Edwards. What's happening? What's going on? What's good? Listen, my guy right here, Red. Yeah. He's so excited that you're here.

I appreciate it. He's a big MMA guy. I'm excited to be here. For me, in the UK, it's a big deal. I'm happy to be here. What are you doing in the States I'm just promoting media media run okay mom Israel's fine this Saturday is yeah so I want to watch him and that's been busy since the fight I wonder about in two months ago mm-hmm that's been busy like promoting that and running off that so how do you get in

the UFC man like what made you want to beat people up for a living um well i got 16 17 years old i got into mixed martial arts and because i was always getting into trouble as a kid you know like it always starts like that yeah 100 i was born in in kingston jamaica immigrated to the uk at like 10 9 10 years old um my dad died at 13 got murdered at 13 in London in the UK and from there went on like a bad spiral mmm some of my my mom suggested mixed martial arts because I was good at fighting mm-hmm you know so you try this out and find a love of it yeah so before you before your father passed did did you have the same anger I don't I guess it would be anger like anger and. Was it anger and rage you had to kind of like project somewhere?

That's why you got into the fight? Well, before he passed or after? Well, after he passed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like after he passed, I think that's where it took a turn, right? Because like growing up in Jamaica, my dad was like the leader of the gang where I grew up and I was born into in Jamaica, you know? So I've always been around like violence as far as like

guns and stuff like that, you know, so I was always like like used to it then also when it passed away Yeah, I think more just like the trauma of it like drama down into like hanging out, getting into gangs and like same shit that he was into, you know, and to about 17. um when i met martial arts and kind of grew out of it do you remember what your your your temperament was like before he passed um yeah but like similar like i'm like a humble calm kid you know so that's that was like me before you know and then obviously when he when he passed i just remember like the the switch you know and yeah just thinking i like the world like the world like i just moved

to a new country my dad got killed in that country we moved to um single mom um she got like figure out like going to a new country figuring out two kids and so like all that your mom is never in the house because she's always working you know so it So, I think it's the same story for most people from, like, where I'm from, you know. Well, yeah. Not most people, but, like, trenches I'm from. Similar stories, you know. But everybody don't grow to have success. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Because, you know, sometimes, you know, if you don't deal with your trauma, your trauma ends up dealing with you. Yeah. Clearly, somewhere along the line, you found a way to channel that trauma to something positive yeah exactly like i remember going like the first day in the gym i remember like the just the positive feedback i was getting you know are you good right you should you should like you can do something with it i feel like that spurred me on to want to keep going back to the gym you know that i feel like the positive reinforcement that i had like made me want to go every day. So, like, at one point I was in the gym from, like, morning to, like, night.

You know, I would train in the morning. I would chill there all day. And then I would go. I would train again on the night. You know, and that was my routine from, like, 18 to in my 20s, you know. Wow. I'm interested in, like, what did your mom instill in you? You know what I mean? Because for some reason people think that when you're raised by just your mom, you can't grow up tough.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Clearly, you did that. Yeah, yeah, 100%. My mom is tough, you know? Like, she had to be tough. I'm hoping you take it off and leave it. I got it yesterday at Dior, yesterday. But over here, the tax over here is like

almost double the price compared to the UK, you know? Like, in the UK, like, this jacket in the UK is like, in pounds, it's like, let's price in the uk you know like in the uk like this jacket in the uk is like in pounds it's like let's say about two two thousand yeah over here it's like two five damn you know um but yeah my mom she was like raised tough she was like come from like all girls all girls all sisters no brothers um she had me at age 15 in jamaica you know in kingston jamaica in poverty so she had to be tough you know so um yeah she she definitely raised two tough boys you know my brothers are fabian he does um mixed martial arts as well he fights a bellator and he's like one fight away from fighting for the world title you know so she definitely raised some killers for sure i'm surprised you didn't like hate

the hate the country y'all y'all moved to after something that tragic happens. Like, I don't want to be in no more after seeing my father pass. Yeah, but it could have passed in Jamaica as well, just the life he was living. Yeah, yeah. To be the leader of the gang in Jamaica, you have to be on some shit. You could have passed it. As a kid, I just knew that that was the outcome. It's like everyone around me was dying, you know, that that was the outcome. It's like everyone around me was dying, you know?

So that was the outcome. Like eventually it's even gonna get to death or prison or something. I was just a kid, I didn't fall like that. But now looking back on it, that's really realistically the only outcome that could have happened. Why martial arts?

Like who? I don't know, just like random. Random. I never know what the UFC was before that. I didn't know what mixed martial arts? Like who? I don't know. It's like random, random. I never knew what the UFC was before that. I didn't know what mixed martial arts was before that, you know. Like literally, I was walking to the bus stop, my mom, and she suggested there's a gym getting built to my area where I grew up. And she was like, you should try this out.

If you can just keep me away from hanging around on the street with my friends. And I was like, okay, for her, I'll do it, you you know so i went up to the gym um inquired about the membership at the time membership was um 60 pound a month which is like 70 a month but as a single mom i know that she couldn't afford it and i thought that's a hefty monthly price tag for a single mom you know but she's like she's like listen i'll pay for it just go just do it you know i was like okay i'll do it and i did it and yeah just kept growing and kept improving i'm sure you didn't make the transition from the street so fast though no i was still like dabbling i doubled to about six to about 16 to about 19 i dabbled you know so you you know a little bit of martial arts and you're in the

street who's the first person you kicked in the neck i talked to a few people but i was always good i was always good at fighting from like, just like off the rip, you know, just like good at street fighting. But honestly, when you go to mixed martial arts, you get like technical at fighting, you know, exactly what you're looking for and how to do it, you know. So yeah, I took out a few. So when did you learn the discipline? Because I'm sure the discipline

is probably what helped you really make the transition. Yeah, 100%. I'll say like, literally probably like a year into it, you know, because like a year into it you know because when I got into it I started researching the sport

like why is mixed martial arts like what do they make is it a career in it you know and then once I see there's

a career in it I was like okay cool I'll stick to it you know and I think over time just like gradually just your energy just switches

you know like you want to be in the gym no um you don't hang around in the street just getting in trouble um in the uk as well it's a big like a knife crime yeah over here it's like guns right we got guns as well but 16 17 15 14 that's like stabbings you know um so it's like yeah so either that or just hang around in the gym i did hang around in the gym now all my friends are hanging around on the street now in the gym you know so just like for me making a switch now all my friends are now into martial arts you know wow now i know uh ufc president dana white has confirmed uh the trilogy fight with you and uh

kamaru yeah yeah how you feeling about that it's gonna gonna be in England. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited for that, you know like to headline the UK 65,000 people trying to get like a stadium show. It's gonna be big, you know, it's gonna be big and I'm excited This is the third time around he beat me the first time by points and I knocked him out the second time, you know so now we're going back home on my turf and my backyard and I'm excited. It's gonna be good. Why a third time though like like like mentally why do you need a third fight um i think not not for me i think for him is it was a long reigning champion for a while you know so i think in the ufc if you're right for a little bit they'll kind of give you like

another shot at about so he was on the field for like eight years. So, yeah, after I knocked him out, I was like, okay, let's do it. But now I'm on your turf and in your backyard. But to me, it doesn't matter, you know. I'm going to do the same thing over and over and over again. So a good fight ten times, I believe that I'll win none of them, you know. How do you think the third fight is going to play out? Because I always wonder about that when you fight a person three times. Like, does the person see something in you?

Like, if I can expose that weakness maybe i have a chance like um i think for us it's like a very heavy base wrestling base um fighter no this decent boxing but more more wrestler than anything and um i think now i i love to see how it comes out after being like it was out cold you know so i'd love to see like how now how he reacts after being put out cold because at the time I think he fought and he said

that he could never be beaten undefeated for 8 years never lost in the UFC never been taken out in the UFC I did it both in one fight

you know so I'd love to see how he comes back now and run it back so either way it doesn't matter to me Do you abstain

from sex before fights? I always hear that about boxes. I normally do like three, it depends on the fight as well. I think like, normally like three or four weeks, like a month, like about a month before.

I think it's more mental than anything. I did it before in my amateur days. What, fucking on the same day as a fight? Nah, nah, nah. What do you mean?

What? Nah, that's a different week in your legs. After a fuck, I went to sleep so no way yeah probably like a month before

just more mental than anything I don't think physically it makes a difference but in my amateur days I did it like a week

after the fight and I was fine you know so but I think now you're playing for big money and opportunities I don't want to

risk it you know yeah I heard that you think now you're playing for big money and opportunities, I don't want to, like, risk it, you know? Yeah, I heard that you were sparring with Ian Gary, and you sent him to the hospital after kicking him in the head? Um, it was a light spar, I remember him going that hard, you know, like, he came, like, he wasn't clearly, yeah, no, no, he was going, it was a good spar, a good level

work, you know, and, um, yeah, he hit me first in a head kick, like a good one you know I was like okay cool then yeah I gave him one back but like my toes hit his mouth he was wearing like my my shin you know like normally when the shin hit that's when you're out you know and but when the toes hit it's like a slap it's like so like he's like busted his teeth and but it's all good he's good good new teammate you busted his teeth with your toes yeah it's like a toes hit right but it's all good he's a good new teammate you busted his teeth with your toes

yeah it's like a your toes hit right so it's like a slap you know but normally I'm trying to figure this out hold on hold on

hold on so you it was his toes yeah cause when you throw the kick normally you're trying to land like your your shin bone

yeah that's what you're trying to land on the head and that like put you out cold but if you fall you fall short then your your feet would like slap them yeah and that's what happened basically and damn busted the lip but it's all good you work out your feet no no you just can't you just get conditioned your body just get conditioned over time from like hitting and just get tougher and tougher you

know yeah you have to negotiate a new deal before the Usman fight too, right? Yeah, but now I wonder about it. Now it's a new negotiation again. Okay. Now I've got to negotiate pay-per-view and percentages and get that door. Is that normal? Is it a per-fight negotiation? No, normally you're going to see it contracted, like, four fights, five fights. But at this level, top five, normally, it's like a longer contract. And you get to, like, negotiate.

It depends on who you're fighting. Like, I fought like Nate Diaz before, and I already negotiated for that as well. So it depends on the opponent, how big the fight is. And, yeah, that's normal, I guess. Why do UFC fighters look so bad in the ring when they fight like a Jake Paul? and the opponent are big the fighters and um yeah that's normal like it goes why do uh ufc fighters look so bad in the ring when they fight like a jake paul yeah but jake paul's fighting like all like the the retired ufc fighters and like um he fought like anthony silver the other day like for me that's my idol when i was like young getting into mma he was like the guy that i looked up to

like in his prime you know and i was not to see that over there when you fought and he's like 46 years old and slow slowed down his reflexes ain't the same and his chin is a bit gone you know so yeah but he's fighting like yeah like retired uc fighters and i thought no one that's like fresh he called out nate diaz yeah but yeah but nate diaz too long in the tooth yeah yeah yeah yeah it took a lot a lot of work over the years, you know, and he's only small as well, so. I think Jake is at, what, 190, 180? I don't know how big he is, but, yeah, I think he's small.

Is boxing that, I mean, is UFC and boxing that much different? Nah, nah. I think, like, a UFC guy can learn boxing quite fast, but I think the opposite way around, like a boxer to learn MMA is probably a longer process. You're like wrestling, jiu-jitsu, kickboxing, it's a lot to learn, you know. But we do boxing as part of our training.

So it's not a big difference. But it's like a different range, different timing. It's all different. You're only punching the head and the body, you know. As a mixed martial arts, you can kick the leg, you can kick the body, you can kick the head, you know, you can elbows. So, yeah, I think it's easier to learn.

You think you fuck Jake Paul, though? Facts, yeah. Facts, facts. I think, I'm like, my style is like striking. Like, my preference is to strike. You know, I'm comfortable with boxers. And I got a great boxing coach back home that helps me out. In camp, I always get good boxing work

because I think it toughens you up. It conditions your body. When you spar, boxers, they go hard. Is it worth it for you to do something like that? Or do you feel like that feels like a sideshow almost? What, boxing? No, with somebody like a Jake Paul. I'm not now, probably not now,

because I'm in my prime now. I just won the UFC about two months ago, and this was my dream. I was like, going to the sport, get it in and use it to change my family's life. Obviously, for the dough, if the dough is good, I'll do it. But right now, I'm focusing on being the best

right now in my sport, you know. And after that, then I can venture out and see what's next. I saw you tell Mirror.co.uk that you and a McGregor fight could happen. I said it'd be easier to happen. We've got the same management team, right? Like, we've got a red hat team because we're all white people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's obvious

you didn't have to you know make that statement we know I can look I got eyes so we're on the same management team

you know so if it was going to happen it'd be easier easy to make you know because it's in house talk but would you even want that?

for the money yeah but as far as like my career I don't need it. You know, I don't need it. He's not a welterweight. I'm a welterweight. He's not like a lightweight. I know he put like some muscle on recently, but yeah, I think I'm too big for him. You think he fell off? Conor McGregor? It's difficult for him to come back and compete against top five, I feel. I think he put a lot of muscle on as well.

That affects the fighter a lot, especially if he broke his legs. He ain't been able to train properly. But I'd love for him to come back and do well. I'm not a hater. His success didn't mine. So hopefully he does come back and do well. Do y'all really? I mean, this might be a stupid does come back and do well do y'all really I mean this might be

a stupid question probably is but do y'all really love what y'all do I do yeah I do for sure cause just like like obviously

you go through like moments in the job right you go through like moments like training is hard and like media

runs are hard and just like you go through moments you know but like overall like it's changed my life you know it's changed my family's life and i'm able to provide for my family and um it gave me discipline that i've used now to pass down to my son he does he does like jiu-jitsu now

and boxing you know so i think like i would never i never wanted to fight but i wanted to learn the the hard work the discipline the dedication that you can take and use in anything you want to do in life. So I think mixed martial arts is definitely helpful for any man to do and even girls to do. It teaches you a lot about yourself. Because I think about Izzy, right? I've had the pleasure of sitting down and building with Izzy a couple times.

And the thing that intrigues me about all of y'all is y'all so humble and cool but clearly psychopaths clearly psychopaths and Izzy said he's willing to die and ready to die in the ring

do you feel the same way? yeah facts I feel like fight night you are you know like you're ready to like go in there and think I'm gonna die

like I'm sure to die I'll die but you you'll push your body to the extreme where that whatever happens happens you know and um because you want to win so bad that is a weird thing to say when you say out loud it sounds weird but i think you want to win so bad and that you're willing to go put your body through whatever you have to put it through to to achieve that goal you know? Would you ever be on, like, you know, salute to Deontay Wilder?

You know, at one time, he said he wanted to catch a body. Yeah, but he's powerful. He probably could catch, like, a few bodies, you know? Even last fight, that guy the last time, he was like a weird hook, and, like, the guy was, like, shaking on the floor, you know? So, no, I'm not going out looking to, like, kill somebody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, obviously the game shaking on the floor you know so um now i'm not going to look we're looking to like kill somebody yeah you know obviously the game is the game you know are you

ever worried about things like brain trauma cte like um no no i probably should but um not not really you know i think there's risk in in any sport in any anything in your life you know and i think as long as you enjoy you're you're good at it, you're not going out and getting damaged every single fight, then you should be all good, you know. I don't take as much damage as some people. But I'm not really... I think you start worrying about that,

it's time to retire, you know. You're going to fight like scared. You're going to fight like you don't want to be hit. You know, you got to be comfortable, confident in yourself and go out and execute. What do you do to work yourself up before you get into and go ahead and execute what do you do to work yourself up before you get into the ring like how do you get into that mind state killer be killed mind state i was going back to like roots you know like all straight to jamaican music

i just like like just like like reggae and um bounty killer bounty killers even the new ones like skang and all that they're like big as well at the moment so um yeah go back to roots and just like getting old school good homophobic jamaican music it's going back to that i went back to the roots and um just getting out that zone to go out there and work you know and um but after that it's all it's all love you know it's like a a mind frame to get yourself into to go compete you know is it all love though do you leave it in the ring because you've had you've had fights back yeah yeah not not with him not with us that's that's that's that's what it is that's beef you know but um oh you don't you

really don't like yeah i i don't like him yeah, yeah. Why? Why does it get personal? Like backstage. We had like a scruffle backstage, you know. We threw a few shots. That was in London. That was my hometown, you know. But they took him and moved him and hid him and flew him out of the country, you know. So I haven't seen him since.

That's like three years ago. But apart from that, everyone else is, as soon as you fight, it's like backstage. It's all like good luck with your life and your family the career and um it's all love like master martial arts it was just like discipline you know it's just like like a humble it does humble you you know because some days again you're getting you're the hammer some days you're the nail you know so you are humbled um you take a look like a little skinny kid that's like 16 years old that's good at jiu-jitsu. It's like choking you out you know it's like it does humble you a lot. Why don't you personally like that that Jorge? Jorge? I think it's Jorge. Jorge, I'm sorry. Just a lot of whapping backstage. We were like a little back and forth on Twitter. He fought

at O2 in London. So did I. I was the co-main event. Iman Darantewi was the main event. I won my fight. Then he won his fight as well. So we were meant to fight each other after that fight in Melbourne.

As I was walking past each other, just basically a little scruffle happened. And then from then, like we said, this never got on. And that's it. And how can you let that go? I can't let it go. Damn. It's not let go. That's like three years ago. little scruffle happen and then from then like we said just never gone and just that's it and and how can you let that go because it's gone it's not let go that's like three years ago wow you know

like yeah it's not let go i like i have to get it i have to get it back you know either in octagon or on on the street you know like i see it has to be a get back when the last time you've been angry that it had nothing to do with fighting? I don't really get angry. I try to think. Outside fighting, just like. Yeah, just in general, just life. I don't.

Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I feel that's weird, right? Because we just get like girls and you got no emotion. But I feel like after you finish training, let's see train twice a day when it when it when you get home you just can't be like above it's like a meditation it's like can't be like asked to entertain the the right because it's just like you're like in a zen state you've you've trained twice a day and your body's tired the mind is tired you just can't be bothered to entertain the you know i think that's why when I got into mixed martial arts at 16,

like, how it changed me into that person, you know? Because when I was younger, I was more angry, I was more, like, blaming the world for everything, and now I just know that it's all down to me, you know? Yeah, for sure. That's so interesting, because it makes you feel like, damn, is some sort of violence necessary? Yeah, 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I believe it is. That's how my son does it. I think it needs to be. That's who does it? My son. Okay. I think you need a little popping in those here and there and just to humble you a little bit and just know that you are human as well.

I think violence is definitely necessary. Not like bullying people people but as far as it's like controlled violence if you can't control it is is um i think that's where sport comes into it you know is definitely necessary like put the gloves on because you know you think about it right we throughout the day us normal people that don't fight for a living yeah yeah you think about some people you know what i mean like so so well think how good it would be if you like you both like you you and him decide to fight each other up you know what I mean but think how good it would be if you both you and him decide to fight each other

you know what fuck it let's have a fight you have to fight after you feel like that was some good work have a good day it's settled it there and then it's done

you get me that really might be so good for your mental health man nah it is man I'm telling you all the fights that you meet they're all like humble right they're all like just like calm and um apart from like some of my time but for everyone else everyone else is all just like just calm and like zen you know because it's like you know you can do that as far as like fighting um you give you the confidence in yourself to feel like listen like in most rooms i go into i probably

could win the fight i think i want a one-to-one fight with somebody so you give you that confidence in yourself that i don't have to portray like being tough and hard because know that if it does go down i'm probably gonna fuck you up yeah you know so um so that and then just part of it's like you've you've let out all the anger in like hitting hitting pads or hitting bags or sparring or whatever. But after you come to the real world, you're calm, you know? Like, I've got friends that, like, bad road rage. You're like, just, like, chasing guys down in cars and everything. Like, for me, it's just like, carrying me today, you know?

Yeah. You might get away with that in London because there ain't nobody shooting. Ain't no shooting. That's right. No, no, listen. There's shooting in the UK, man. Okay. There is shooting, you know, but obviously for the kids,

knife crime is the thing, you know, like, that's like the thing, you know, when I was young, I used to bring my knife to school and shit, you know,

it's just what it is. Obviously, it's a sad thing, but that's what it is, you know. Do people try to like, they run up on your street and be like, yo, what's up, man? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? like they run up in your street and be like oh what's up man you know i mean challenge you know i reckon i could like have you was like okay cool yeah you probably can't but cool you know but um not like no not like a day-to-day not

not in the uk no definitely not no when's the last time you've been in a street fight? Six years ago, probably. And that's like a random, like, drunken fight. Yeah. You know? But I felt like a sober head. What happened? I can't remember. It was like a club, being in a club.

My friend started fighting, and that was it. He just went off. Yeah. So he went like me, like, started me, started one of my friends, and, yeah, went south from then. Damn. At least he had you on his side. Yeah, so we're like me like started me saw one of my friends and Yes, when I saw from them. Hey, at least he had you on his side You know any young like these two all the time, you know, like they're like comfortable they'll be won't back down from the fight could I know like worst case scenario if it does go off like Like most of my friends can fight as well because they're all now doing mixed martial arts.

Not to compete, but they train it. They're all good street fighters. It's all good. Is it true that when you're the type of fighter you are, you've got to have registered hands or something like that? No. I'm registered my like my body's registered for like health insurance yeah not not not um i think you can't go out there

like look to like pick fights with people because obviously you get sued right or um but you can definitely self like self-defense like defend yourself if you feel like you have to you know all right thanks well i know you got to go man i just wanted to just thank you for coming through my brother i appreciate it like for me like i said it's a it's a honor and a big deal for me you know to meet you you're smaller than what i thought you know yo yo yo yo don't think don't think don't think you can try me no no no no no no no no that's all love but like this is what i watch. My manager would tell me, in camp, keep training twice a day.

This is my downtime. What's your favorite Breakfast Club episode? I've seen all of them. I like the Barryman one. That was a good one. That's the cliche one. That's all of it. That's the way you interact

with the people. You make it feel chilled. Not a lot of pressure doing it. I appreciate it. I'm sorry MVNU wasn't here, but they don't like UFC, so. No, no. You ever been to a fight before?

Have I been? No, I've never been to a UFC fight. You know what, you going on Saturday to easy? No, I'm out of town. Are you? Yeah, I'm out of town. No, the atmosphere is good. I mean, listen, everybody I know loves it.

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