Posted on 12/15/2023 1:10:53 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Interview UFC’s Leon Edwards: ‘In Jamaica killing seemed normal. We were used to death all around us’ Donald McRae Fighter opens up on his tough upbringing, escaping gang life and his stunning defeat of Kamaru Usman to become world champion
Donald McRae @donaldgmcrae Tue 12 Dec 2023 06.19 EST Leon Edwards laughs as he remembers how, seven years ago, he and a friend used to practise his interview technique at home in Birmingham. “I was terrible at interviews,” the UFC welterweight champion admits as his traumatic life, blighted by the murder of his father and his immersion in gangland strife as a teenager, had left him sounding broken and stilted.
“I was so nervous I’d be giving one-word answers,” Edwards says with an amused grimace as he gets ready to defend his title against Colby Covington in Las Vegas on Saturday night. “That’s all I could do then.”
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So weird, I am in Jamaica right now on vacation.
Comparing Kingston to 75% of Jamaica is like comparing the ghettos of Chicago to the rest of Illinois, etc.
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