Kamaru Usman is currently sitting on the wrong side of history.
And that is a part of his story he fully intends to rewrite. Usman lost in dramatic fashion to Leon Edwards in the main event of UFC 278 last summer, getting knocked out by a head kick with less than a minute remaining in the fifth round. Despite controlling the second, third, fourth and vast majority of the fifth, standing close to a unanimous decision and a record-tying victory, Usman instead became an enduring part of Edwards’s highlight reel.
“He got me,” says Usman, who lost his welterweight title to Edwards. “He broke me. Now he gets to taste what it is like to be champion.”
