“I keep waking up and touching the belt, making sure it’s still there.”
Leon Edwards has just woken up the morning after returning to his hometown Erdington in Birmingham. He is the newly minted UFC welterweight champion and was given a hero’s welcome but he is still on Utah time – and cloud nine.
The 31-year-old dethroned long-time champion Kamaru Usman with an inch-perfect head-kick in the final minute of their long-awaited rematch.
It had been a lop-sided affair until then. Edwards – who lost the first fight seven years ago…
