{"id":394953,"date":"2021-09-21T08:27:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=394953"},"modified":"2021-09-21T08:27:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:27:39","slug":"leon-edwards-believes-the-ufc-is-trying-to-get-him-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/leon-edwards-believes-the-ufc-is-trying-to-get-him-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Edwards believes the UFC is trying to get him beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Leon Edwards believes that the UFC is trying to get him beat, but the Brit says that he won&#8217;t lose.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards is coming off of a unanimous decision win over Nate Diaz at UFC 263 and he is unbeaten over his last 10 fights overall. Despite that impressive unbeaten streak, the UFC decided not to give Edwards the next title shot against UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman. Instead, Colby Covington was given the rematch and he will fight Usman at UFC 266, a decision that Edwards does not agree with as he believes he deserved it instead.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2021\/9\/21\/22685082\/leon-edwards-thinks-ufc-is-trying-to-get-me-beat-but-i-cannot-lose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting.com&#8217;s The MMA Hour<\/a>, Edwards was asked why he believes the UFC didn&#8217;t give him the next title shot and instead went with Covington. As far as the Brit goes, the UFC is trying to hold him back and keep him away from fighting for the title shot. He is convinced that he would become the new UFC welterweight champion but for whatever reason, he keeps getting passed over for the title shot. In fact, Edwards has gone on so far as to say that he believes the UFC brass wants him to get beat, but he won&#8217;t lose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been six years since my last loss. Colby got beat by the champion, fought Woodley, the fight ended by injury, sat out for over a year and got a title shot. But when I go on and get 10 fights in a row, now, \u2018He needs one more.\u2019 Every time, it\u2019s one more. I think they\u2019re trying to get me beat, but I cannot lose. I truly believe that I will be the next world champion. They\u2019re trying to hold me back from it, but it\u2019s coming. I truly believe it,&#8221; Edwards said.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/leon-edwards-has-zero-interest-in-fighting-jorge-masvidal-next-i-dont-want-to-hear-nothing-about-a-guy-coming-off-2-fight-skid\/\">Leon Edwards<\/a> that it seems like the UFC is trying to get him beat?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Leon Edwards believes that the UFC is trying to get him beat, but the Brit says that he won&#8217;t lose. Edwards is coming off of a unanimous decision win over Nate Diaz at UFC 263 and he is unbeaten over his last 10 fights overall. Despite that impressive unbeaten streak, the UFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":305856,"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 believes the UFC is trying to get him beat | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC welterweight contender Leon Edwards believes that the UFC is trying to get him beat, but the Brit says that he won&#039;t lose.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/leon-edwards-believes-the-ufc-is-trying-to-get-him-beat\/\" \/>\n<meta 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