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Farah Hannoun

Daniel Cormier: Kamaru Usman should be favorite in Leon Edwards trilogy, ‘because he was cruising’

Daniel Cormier expects oddsmakers to favor Kamaru Usman in a trilogy bout against Leon Edwards.

Edwards (20-3 MMA, 12-2 UFC) dethroned Usman (20-2 MMA, 15-1 UFC) with an incredible head-kick knockout in this past Saturday’s UFC 278 headliner in Salt Lake City.

But before stopping Usman with less than one minute left in Round 5, Edwards was en route to losing a unanimous decision in a fight he was in which he was being dominated outside of the first round. The opening odds already have Usman as a sizable favorite against Edwards in a potential trilogy, and Cormier agrees.

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