Leon Edwards vs. Belal Muhammad went down ahead of their UFC 304 main event meeting, some of the action happened in the elevator. The two welterweights shared a few words with their teams at the fighter hotel.
Leon Edwards vs. Belal Muhammad and the UFC 304 Elevator
At the fighter hotel, the elevator seems to be a hot spot for fighters to run into one another. Most notably, the UFC 304 headlining fighters, Leon Edwards vs. Belal Muhammad, got into a small altercation. The two athletes broke down what they believe happened from their own point of view.
Leon Edwards explained:
“I was going up to floor three, [the elevator] opened and he was standing right there in front. I think he thought in his head that I wouldn’t come into the lift so I walked straight into the lift and said, ‘Press No. 3,’ and that was it.” H/T MMA Fighting
“It was weird because in the lift he was mad quiet, and then after the lift opened and everyone’s outside, he’s like, ‘Oh p*ssy, blah, blah, blah.’ Like bro, why didn’t you say all this in the lift? I don’t know.”
Belal Muhammad added his side of the perspective:
“I just heard a little short freaking midget screaming something, and I was like, ‘What the heck was that?’ I saw it ended up being his coach in front, but Leon and his team didn’t say nothing.”
“His brother was trying to give me a dirty look, but he didn’t know I was sizing him up for after the cage, if he ends up hopping in the cage wanting to do something.”
The two fighters met once before but ended inconclusively with a no contest due to an inadvertent eye poke. Now, the UFC 304 main event will see Belal Muhammad look to take the title off of the division king ‘Rocky’ Leon Edwards.
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