The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Daniel Cormier TV - Leon Edwards GOES IN ON beef with Belal Muhammad + sparring with Makhachev

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

Leon Edwards joins Daniel Cormier for the latest edition of the DC Check-In! "Rocky" Edwards talks about the "bad blood" between him and Belal Muhammad and why this beef began in the first place ahead of their title fight at UFC 304. Plus, Leon pulls the curtain back on the elevator incident in Manchester and what started the confrontation between him and Belal. DC also reminds Leon of when he sparred Islam Makhachev when he came to the United States. And don't miss Edwards tell Cormier about his emotions in the Colby Covington fight, and why Muhammad's win over Gilbert Burns wasn't impressive. 1:00 - English food2:00 - Islam Makhachev sparred with Leon Edwards3:00 - First fight with Belal Muhammad4:30 - "Bad blood" between the two5:30 - More on elevator confrontation7:00 - Colby Covington fight8:30 - Edwards on LOVING his walkout (Timestamps vary based on ads) #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I appreciate your time every time. Hey, so I'm going to go down to the sweet's kitchen. Hour and a half. For your mama food, It's better be good now. If one of the best jerk chicken. If I grow up, I don't have to your mama's restaurant. It better be good.

Bro. You like oxdale? You like jerk chicken? I like jerk chicken. Can I be honest with you? I don't know what an oxtail is. So I struggle with eating at oxtail. I don't know if it's beef.

I like to have something. I like that. I like to know what I'm eating. Because y'all had some stuff earlier. It said pulled pork with barbecue sauce. Yeah. But it wasn't even like pink or red. Ricky Salt is like a red color.

It was white, looked like mayonnaise. How did shit y'all got going on to that, man? I don't eat pork, so. You don't eat pork, huh? Not, I ain't pork. No, I didn't pork. This is like 10 years old. It's good.

Yeah, I heard you. That's good, boy. Everything, though. It's good, but I mean, that's why you look like you look and I look like, I look. Because you eat pork. You don't eat pork, and I do. All right, guys. So I'm here in Manchester for your championship fight.

You and I have spent time together before in the gym. Obviously, we've known each other for a long time. You know what was brought to my attention recently? I never knew this. When you were at with us training, the golden age, we were some hard days back in. Islam said that the first sparring session he had off the plane was you. Do you remember that? No.

He told me that his first sparring session off the plane, when he got to AK his first day, they told me he was going to spar in a cage with a really high-level striker. Yeah, yeah. I can't remember. Is it eight, nine years ago? It was a long time ago. Yeah, exactly. So, I don't, I can't remember.

But that's, like, a bit of, like, history, right? Like, that's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. Because look at you two now both the U.S.C. champion. But I think it's telling to, like, also to the gym as well, aka, at the time, is you. You guys were so young? We were all the guys at the top, right?

You guys are so young, and now, there's a chance. It's mad out of all for 60 is now. Things were. Yeah, he's mad. But, like I said, at the time, it's honored to be around that environment. I mean, all you guys there. And, but far as far as far as far as far as far a few people, I can't remember.

I remember the first day I walked. It stayed with him, though. Yeah. So you must have made the impact. Yeah, yeah, play. Malah Muhammad, right? We talked about the elevated incident, but the fight itself,

when you look at the fight, all you really have to go on is the first round. You heard him real bad, right? And you're not a guy that starts really fast. Yeah. What are you expecting this weekend? I'm similar, just carrying out from round one going forward. And I'm obviously for him,

Like what could be his game plan, right? He's not coming out of problem, wrestling more, probably. I feel I'll face better wrestlers than Bilal Mohammed, you know, and I felt his strength in the clinch. I felt his range. Was he strong? Did he feel strong to you? Not really.

Not that I haven't felt before, you know what I mean? So I can't see what it brings to the table different from the first fight. He has improved a little bit, but not. I don't think he's improved enough to win the fight, you know? I asked him the same question. I got to ask you this. Two guys fight. Yeah.

Right. It's not like you guys fought like Tom and Curtis. Tom and Curtis felt for 15 seconds. Yeah, yeah. You guys fought five minutes and into the second round. But it seems like, and I have to say this, I said to people, I hope Leon doesn't expect the same guy he met before. No. I hope Ballal doesn't expect the same guy because you guys are both so much better than,

but it seems like you have less respect for him today than you did then. Is that because you feel like you've improved more? Yeah. Or you just don't appreciate his skills? because he's much better looking what he did to go Burns. Yeah, but Gilbert Burr was injured in the fight. You know what I mean?

You're fighting like a half man there. Luke Hey, look at him now in his career, you know what I mean? So he hasn't improved. Like I said, I'm not deluded. You know, I'm taking this fight serious. And I know he has improved, but I don't feel like it's improved enough. You know? I feel like skill for skill, I'm just the bad guy, you know, and that's what's it.

You know, you guys now seem to have bad blood. Where did it come from? Because now it's very like, it seems very like, it seems very like, mm, yeah, I don't know, you have to ask him. For me, it's all like banter and just like whatever, you know what I mean? For him, he's just like, oh, I hate your team, I hate your, hey your brother. Why? He said, that's what he said, your coach was yelling at him in the elevator.

Yeah, I was like, bro, what? All right. I'm gonna tell you, he said you didn't say anything. He said your coach was the one chirping at him. That it was, I was just like, a lot of laughing at the scenario. He was so awkward in the corner. He was like in the corner by himself, like, awkward. You know what I mean?

So we were sort of bantering him and laughing. He was quite a fucking elevator. As soon as they were open, though, and security was outside, he's like, yeah, you got you're pushing, man. Really? Yeah, yeah. So I was like, you're not that, you know what I mean? So you're like, you're pretending?

Like, I, like, with me alone in elevator. Like, no one can be like, men feel pushing elevator, you know what I mean? But he can feel pushing elevator. That's a difference. You know what I mean? Like, I am that in my heart, you know what I mean? He ain't that. He's a persona with putting on for the media and trying to talk yourself into the fight

and blah, blah, blah. It's going to be easy fight and everything. That's what I was going to ask. Like, you know, do you think he's putting, kind of making himself like, I can do this? Because there's a lot of times, right? Like, the mental, you've got to work yourself mentally to go try to accomplish something truly great. Yeah, 100%.

I feel that's why he's talking. That's what he's there. I mean, it says if it beats me, which he won't. He won't. He's going to be like George St. Pierre. Brovet. His coach came out yesterday. I forgot to ask.

about that, man. I said it's like fucking Canelo unboxing his coach said that. Who? Belal's coach?

You're lying. He came out. He said he's like Marquez and he's like Canelo in boxing now he's training him so good. I was like bro

this is what I'm dealing with. These are people I'm dealing with so like I said there's why if he needs mentally to prepare himself for the battle let him do that but it's funny.

Do you think Because last fight, you had a lot of bad blood, man. It seems like you and Camaro didn't have much. No. But obviously you and Kobe Covington, it was nasty. Yeah. But then in the fight, you can almost see him go within himself like, man, I can't beat this man. Do you think something similar happens on Saturday night?

And was that gratifying to take a Kobe Covington, who had been so boisterous going into the fight and really rendering him pretty helpless because he, I mean, what did he throw, 15 punches in the whole fight? He didn't really do much. Exactly. I feel like Bill out of Prangy a little bit more. I hope, you know, but I don't feel like it'd be enough. I feel like I said, you just watch me and him and just skill for skill and just, he still makes the same mistakes that he made before. Even though he has improved, his patterns are similar, same patterns, do I mean?

I don't feel like he can get in more faster than what he is already. I can't see his feet getting in more quicker than what it is already. It won't get more stronger than what he is already. He's still short. His range is still limited. So I don't know, I don't know, but like I said, Jesse. But did you like that though? Like watching that guy that talks so much?

Yeah. Really kind of like, like he really would not engage with you. Yeah, 100%. I wish she did engage, you know, because I wanted to like really hear him. And because we're like kind of like I said, I kind of shut him down with the range in the distance and couldn't like close the distance enough. But yeah, I wish you did engage a little bit more and forget to hear him a more. You know, I once asked Justin Gage to this question.

And it was the, it was the craziest answer. ever gave me. I said, what do you feel when you're walking out there? That's what I asked Gachi. And then I watch you walk out, right? And John always talks about your song and like, and I watch and I was like, I'm noticing that when he hits the curtain, you start to

smile. So I went back and watched like a few more walk-ups. I'm like, is this guy like getting, when he gets close, like you get excited? What are you feeling? Because, dude, the moment you come out of the tunnel, the biggest smile goes on your face, like, you're happy. Yeah, it's like, free. That's how I feel. I feel like,

the way it's like let's let's let's go and perform now behind the curves I'm like okay talking myself in I was in popping myself up but as soon as it opens you smile yeah because it feels it feels like let's let's go and um that's a feeling I have you know and

as you can see that's off I was like this dude's crazy fuck I was watching yo I was watching I was like this crazy because I don't think I ever see anybody else nobody else does that like when they when the crowd hits them it's almost like you're like,

yes, I finally get to go fight. Like, I'm a guy to get to beat somebody's ass. Yeah, that's all I feel. That's what I feel. That's what I feel.

It feels like, finally it's time to put hands on somebody, you know, and that's what makes me happy and that's what I get my injury from. I mean, you're close to home,

Birmingham, yeah, Manchester, big crowd, a lot of people. You're a crowd, though, right?

You're a star. I remember, dude, like, after the fight in London, they almost made another pay-p-review because they wanted you to headline that

pay-review Yeah. Right. Like that has to feel good because before that wasn't like that for Leon Edwards. Yeah, 100% it feels it feels great. Like I said, to have the whole country back in me and just seeing how great I am. And even for me, just I was believing in myself going through all that opposite now in my career. And now to find out everyone getting the same belief I believe back in the day. You just now feel free. And now this is the reason why I feel like I'm so happy. I didn't have to like change myself. I didn't have to like start dying my hair blonde and be. Yeah, do it. Because be me. Yeah. And now everyone's on the boat, you know, so, so good. I'm a European soccer fan. Yeah. So I went to Manchester City today. My favorite team. Yeah, I loved them forever. Two years. They want a couple titles in that time, you know? But I'm getting to go around, man. You follow the sport at all, no? A little bit, a little bit. My team is Austin Villa.

Also, I'm from a little bit. A little bit. Yeah. Good. Well, Champ, thanks again for checking it with me. Guys, Leon Rocky Edwards Defends a Walterweight championship again this weekend against Bala Muhammad in a rematch. You two rematches that got stopped early because of something happening. Guaranteed to be better this weekend. Go to ESPN Plus.

Hit that pay-per-view button. Make sure you watch the champ. Also, tapping everything he's doing. Instagram, Twitter. He's old enough to do Facebook. I know a lot of these young fighters don't do Facebook, but he do Facebook. Follow him.

You got YouTube or anything? No, no. I want to start one. You need to start one. You need to start one. Dude, call me. Let me know. I'll tell you what to do.

Make sure you go watch the champion, guys. And until next time, like, subscribe, and tell you friends. To tell their friends that Dice has got a YouTube channel. And I'm hanging out with guys like The Rock. Leon Rocky Edwards. Until next time, peace. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite.

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