UFC boss Dana White has labelled accusations that Leon Edwards cheated in his welterweight title fight against Kamaru Usman as "silly, ridiculous and absolutely unfair".
Edwards, 31, was losing his UFC 278 fight before producing a last-gasp head kick to knock out Usman with less than a minute left. 'Rocky' has since been accused of cheating on "multiple occasions", as MMA analyst Chael Sonnen said the Brit went unpunished after grabbing the fence to avoid being taken down by Usman throughout the fight.
White has played down Sonnen's cheating accusations, as he told reporters. “He became champion with a head kick. He didn’t win by grabbing the fence. He got absolutely dominated in that whole fight except for that couple of minutes in the first round. That’s completely unfair of Chael Sonnen to say that. That kid sucked it up, dug down deep and landed literally the perfect head kick with like a minute left in the fight. So I would say that that’s silly, ridiculous and absolutely unfair to say about Leon.”
