Fabian Edwards believes that his father was “looking down” on him when he mimicked the title-winning knockout of brother Leon Edwards to become PFL middleweight champion, a mere day after the three-year anniversary of Leon’s famous UFC title triumph over Kamaru Usman.
Leon’s two-year reign as welterweight king begun in monumental fashion on 20 August 2022, when he pulled a Hail Mary knockout-of-the-year from his depths to beat one of the division’s all-time greats at UFC 278. Just over 1,000 days on from that historic night in Salt Lake City, one immortalised with the catchphrase “headshot dead”, the stars aligned for the Edwards family once more.
