{"id":320037,"date":"2019-07-21T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=320037"},"modified":"2019-07-21T08:29:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T15:29:05","slug":"leon-edwards-tells-jorge-masvidal-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/leon-edwards-tells-jorge-masvidal-to-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Edwards tells Jorge Masvidal to &#8216;run&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for Leon Edwards to respond to Jorge Masvidal on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off of a decision win over Rafael dos Anjos in the main event of UFC San Antonio, Edwards used his post-fight interview as an opportunity to call out Masvidal, who got into a backstage brawl with him back at UFC London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jorge-masvidal-responds-to-callout-from-leon-edwards\/\">Masvidal took to Twitter late last night and criticized Edwards&#8217; fight as boring<\/a>. Now, Edwards has fired back at his rival. Here&#8217;s what Edwards had to say to Masvidal <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Leon_edwardsmma\/status\/1152956934670209024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Run Jorge Run<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/runjorgerun?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#runjorgerun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Leon &#39;Rocky&#39; Edwards (@Leon_edwardsmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Leon_edwardsmma\/status\/1152956934670209024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Run Jorge Run.&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; Leon Edwards<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Edwards and Masvidal are on a collision course sooner rather than later. After beating dos Anjos, Edwards has now won eight fights in a row in the UFC welterweight division and has an excellent 10-2 overall record inside the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>As for Masvidal, he&#8217;s fresh off of back-to-back highlight-reel knockouts over Darren Till and Ben Askren, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-239-results-jorge-masvidal-kos-ben-askren-video\/\">the latter setting the UFC record for fastest KO at just five seconds<\/a>. There is arguably no hotter fight in the sport than Masvidal right now, and he could be in line for a title shot against UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman instead of Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>That will likely depend on what happens between Colby Covington and Robbie Lawler at UFC on ESPN 5 next month in New Jersey. UFC president Dana White has already said Covington is the No. 1 contender, but after Masvidal knocked out Askren the way he did, it&#8217;s likely Covington needs a great performance against Lawler to guarantee his title shot.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what happens between Edwards and Masvidal in the meantime. Even if this fight doesn&#8217;t happen next, it looks like it&#8217;s destined to happen at some point. The fans want to see the fight and it seems like the fighters want it, so let&#8217;s see what happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you interested in seeing a matchup between Leon Edwards and Jorge Masvidal?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for Leon Edwards to respond to Jorge Masvidal on social media. Fresh off of a decision win over Rafael dos Anjos in the main event of UFC San Antonio, Edwards used his post-fight interview as an opportunity to call out Masvidal, who got into a backstage brawl with him back at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":305409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39414,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Leon Edwards tells Jorge Masvidal to &#039;run&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fresh off a huge decision win over Rafael dos Anjos at UFC San Antonio, Leon Edwards has fired back at Jorge Masvidal on social media.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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