Vicente Luque leans in direction of Leon Edwards beating Belal Muhammad at UFC 304.
Edwards (21-3 MMA, 13-2 UFC) defends his welterweight title in a rematch towards Muhammad (23-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC) within the July 27 essential occasion at Co-op Stay in Manchester, England.
Luque thinks Muhammad has made many enhancements since his Spherical 2 no contest towards Edwards in 2021. Having fought each Muhammad and Edwards – Muhammad twice, Luque gave perception into the title struggle rematch.
“It’s a loopy struggle,” Luque advised MMA Junkie Radio. “If I’m going from their first struggle which ended with that eye poke, I believed Leon was wanting significantly better and he was beating Belal in that struggle. However since then, I really feel like Belal went build up an important streak. He’s been actually, actually sharpening up his instruments and he is aware of the sort of fighter he’s proper now. He’s not a man that makes many errors inside that octagon.”
Luque knocked out Muhammad of their first assembly in 2016, however Muhammad avenged his loss by outgrappling Luque once they ran issues again in 2022.
Luque was additionally outgrappled by Edwards once they fought in 2017. He thinks the champion’s placing will ultimately make the distinction towards Muhammad.
“For me, I’d say it’s actually tied up,” Luque mentioned. They each can actually take the win. I might nearly put it 50-50, however I’ll go a bit bit with Leon simply because I believe Leon has extra versatile placing and he does have some actually exact photographs, and that may change a struggle. I do know each of them wrestle actually good. I really feel like Leon has nice wrestling cardio.
“In my struggle, we wrestled lots, and that’s how I ended up getting drained. After that he was simply throwing his arms, boxing, and mixing it up with wrestling so, I believe that little little bit of expertise, of capacity from Leon, I might put him as a bit little bit of a favourite. However nonetheless, very shut struggle for me.”
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