{"id":393945,"date":"2022-06-25T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=393945"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T09:30:04","slug":"ufc-commentator-michael-bisping-makes-a-massive-prediction-on-leon-edwards-odds-in-a-fight-against-kamaru-usman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ufc-commentator-michael-bisping-makes-a-massive-prediction-on-leon-edwards-odds-in-a-fight-against-kamaru-usman\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Commentator Michael Bisping Makes a Massive Prediction on Leon Edwards&#8217; Odds in a Fight Against Kamaru Usman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC commentator Michael Bisping spoke out on the looming welterweight title fight between Kamaru Usman and Leon Edwards. Following a string of back-to-back rematches, Usman will now defend his belt in another rematch that is over five years in the making.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Rocky\u2019 Edwards has gone undefeated since losing to Kamaru Usman in 2015 and the only blemish on his record is a NC to Belal Muhammad that came via an accidental eye poke. Edwards is now finally set to cash in on an opportunity to face his rival and claim the welterweight strap for himself.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/if-he-loses-you-know-where-do-you-go-from-there-sean-omalley-explains-why-he-wants-jake-paul-to-win-in-a-potential-fight-against-nate-diaz\/\">\u201cIf He Loses You Know\u2026where Do You Go From There\u201d- Sean O\u2019Malley Explains Why He Wants Jake Paul to Win in a Potential Fight Against Nate Diaz<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Bisping believes Leon Edwards is going to give Kamaru Usman his \u2018toughest fight\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>According to \u2018The Count\u2019, Leon Edwards possesses all the necessary tools to win out the day over Usman. Alongside crisp striking and inventive entry angles, Edwards\u2019 takedown defense is nothing to scoff at.<\/p>\n<p>Putting all these factors together, Michael Bisping believes Usman is in for a tough night at the office. However, he also recognized that since Edwards was rocked by Nate Diaz in the fifth round, the same can easily happen at the hands of \u2018The Nigerian Nightmare\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here are the opening odds for Kamaru Usman vs. Leon Edwards 2:<\/p>\n<p>Kamaru Usman -250 (2\/5)<br \/>Leon Edwards +210 (21\/10)<\/p>\n<p>(odds via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetOnline_ag?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@betonline_ag<\/a>) \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC278?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC278<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xLrjnMUmcY\">pic.twitter.com\/xLrjnMUmcY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chamatkar Sandhu (@SandhuMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SandhuMMA\/status\/1536056503794294789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI mean, Usman is the pound-for-pound number one, but Leon Edwards is probably going to give him the toughest fight he\u2019s had in a very long time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOf course, I am rooting for Leon as a fellow Brit, and I think he\u2019s got a really, really good chance. It is not going to be easy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tY7HTlJEyzo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLeon needs to be 100% focussed in his fight. Because one thing to be sure, if Kamaru Usman can catch Leon the way that Nate Diaz did, then, of course, he has the power to knock him out. He knocked out Masvidal, stopped Gilbert Burns, he has such a tremendous amount of power\u2026 So, Leon\u2019s going to have to be perfect.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/michael-bisping-believes-leon-edwards-is-going-to-have-to-be-perfect-in-order-to-dethrone-kamaru-usman-at-ufc-278\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bjpenn.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leon Edwards would become only the second fighter to win a UFC championship as an Englishman, a feat ironically secured by none other than Michael Bisping himself. \u2018Rocky\u2019 has the tools to give any top fighter plenty of problems if he puts everything together in a meaningful way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC commentator Michael Bisping spoke out on the looming welterweight title fight between Kamaru Usman and Leon Edwards. Following a string of back-to-back rematches, Usman will now defend his belt in another rematch that is over five years in the making. \u2018Rocky\u2019 Edwards has gone undefeated since losing to Kamaru Usman in 2015 and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":393946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}